Painleve analysis of the perturbed sine-Gordon equation

Puri, Sanjay (1985) Painleve analysis of the perturbed sine-Gordon equation Physics Letters A, 107 (8). pp. 359-361. ISSN 0375-9601

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Abstract

It is shown that the perturbed sine-Gordon equation does not pass the Painleve test for integrability except in a trivial case. Thus, the observed stability of "solitons" under collision cannot be explained by the usual mechanism of conservation laws.

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