Special Session 87: Integrable systems, turbulence and water waves

Rational solutions of KPI

Sarbarish Chakravarty
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
USA
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Abstract:
A class of non-singular rational solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) I equation are explicitly constructed. The solutions have multiple peaks which form a complex two-dimensional wave pattern characterized by the partitions of a positive integer $N$ -- the number of peaks. The pattern formation are described by the roots of well-known polynomials arising in the study of rational solutions of Painlev\`e II and IV equations.