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1Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow 108840, Russia.
Abstract:
The theory of motion of edges of dispersive shock waves generated after wave breaking of simple waves is developed. It is shown that this motion obeys Hamiltonian mechanics complemented by a Hopf-like equation for evolution of the background flow, which interacts with the edge wave packets or the edge solitons. A conjecture about the existence of a certain symmetry between equations for the small-amplitude and soliton edges is formulated. In the case of localized simple-wave pulses propagating through a quiescent medium, this theory provided a new approach to derivation of an asymptotic formula for the number of solitons eventually produced from such a pulse.
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