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Applied Nonlinear Mathematics Preprint 2000.2

A global characterization of gap solitary-wave solutions to a coupled KdV system

Alan Champneys Mark D. Groves and Patrick D. Woods

Abstract

Two coupled KdV equations, depending upon three dimensionless parameters, are investigated for gap solitary-wave solutions. Normal-form analysis of two degenerate Hamiltonian-Hopf bifurcations captures small-amplitude envelope solitary waves. Agreement occurs with numerical continuation to large amplitude, linking solitary waves, kinks, and a `snaking' transition to infinite periodic cores.



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