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September  2018, 38(9): 4449-4465. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2018194

Hamiltonian structure of peakons as weak solutions for the modified Camassa-Holm equation

Stephen Anco 1,, and  Daniel Kraus 2,

1. 

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S3A1, Canada
2. 

Department of Mathematics, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126, USA

* Corresponding author

Received  September 2017 Revised  January 2018 Published  June 2018

The modified Camassa-Holm (mCH) equation is a bi-Hamiltonian system possessing $N$-peakon weak solutions, for all $N≥ 1$, in the setting of an integral formulation which is used in analysis for studying local well-posedness, global existence, and wave breaking for non-peakon solutions. Unlike the original Camassa-Holm equation, the two Hamiltonians of the mCH equation do not reduce to conserved integrals (constants of motion) for $2$-peakon weak solutions. This perplexing situation is addressed here by finding an explicit conserved integral for $N$-peakon weak solutions for all $N≥ 2$. When $N$ is even, the conserved integral is shown to provide a Hamiltonian structure with the use of a natural Poisson bracket that arises from reduction of one of the Hamiltonian structures of the mCH equation. But when $N$ is odd, the Hamiltonian equations of motion arising from the conserved integral using this Poisson bracket are found to differ from the dynamical equations for the mCH $N$-peakon weak solutions. Moreover, the lack of conservation of the two Hamiltonians of the mCH equation when they are reduced to $2$-peakon weak solutions is shown to extend to $N$-peakon weak solutions for all $N≥ 2$. The connection between this loss of integrability structure and related work by Chang and Szmigielski on the Lax pair for the mCH equation is discussed.

Keywords: Peakon, Hamiltonian.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 58F15, 58F17; Secondary: 53C35.
Citation: Stephen Anco, Daniel Kraus. Hamiltonian structure of peakons as weak solutions for the modified Camassa-Holm equation. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2018, 38 (9) : 4449-4465. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2018194
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S. C. Anco and E. Recio, A general family of multi-peakon equations and their properties, arXiv: 1609.04354, math-ph. Google Scholar

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S. C. Anco, Peakons: Weak solutions or distributions?, Abstract of contributed paper at 10th IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena (Athens, USA), 2017. Google Scholar

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S. C. Anco, in preparation. Google Scholar

[4]

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[5]

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[6]

X. Chang and J. Szmigielski, Lax integrability and the peakon problem for the modified Camassa-Holm equation, Comm. Math. Phys., 358 (2018), 295-341.  doi: 10.1007/s00220-017-3076-6.  Google Scholar

[7]

X. Chang and J. Szmigielski, An inverse problem for the modified Camassa-Holm equation and multi-point Padé approximants, arXiv: 1512.08303, math-ph. Google Scholar

[8]

A. Constantin and W. A. Strauss, Stability of peakons, Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 53 (2000), 603-610.  doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0312(200005)53:5<603::AID-CPA3>3.0.CO;2-L.  Google Scholar

[9]

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[11]

R. Camassa and D. D. Holm, An integrable shallow water equation with peaked solitons, Phys. Rev. Lett., 71 (1993), 1661-1664.  doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.1661.  Google Scholar

[12]

R. Camassa, D. D. Holm and J. M. Hyman, A new integrable shallow water equation, Adv. Appl. Mech., 31 (1994), 1-33.  doi: 10.1016/S0065-2156(08)70254-0.  Google Scholar

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[14]

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[15]

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