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Zhao Zhang1, Wencheng Hu2, Qi Guo1
1Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanophotonic Functional Materials and Devices, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
We study solitary waves in the cylindrical Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation designated to media with positive dispersion (the cKP1 equation). By means of the Darboux-Matveev transform, we derive exact solutions that describe two-dimensional solitary waves (lumps), lump chains, and their interactions. One of the obtained solutions describes the modulation instability of outgoing ring solitons and their disintegration onto a number of lumps. We also derive solutions describing decaying lumps and lump chains of a complex spatial structure-ripplons. Then, we study normal and anomalous (resonant) interactions of lump chains with each other and with ring solitons. Results obtained agree with the numerical data presented in Part I of this study [Hu et al., Chaos (2024)].
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