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This paper deals with the transmission of a soliton in a random medium described by a randomly perturbed Korteweg–de Vries equation. Different kinds of perturbations are addressed, depending on their specific time or position dependences, with or without damping. We derive effective evolution equations for the soliton parameter by applying a perturbation theory of the inverse scattering transform and limit theorems of stochastic calculus. Original results are derived that are very different compared to a randomly perturbed Nonlinear Schrödinger equation. First the emission of a soliton gas is proved to be a very general feature. Second some perturbations are shown to involve a speeding-up of the soliton, instead of the decay that is usually observed in random media.
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Garnier, J. Long-Time Dynamics of Korteweg–de Vries Solitons Driven by Random Perturbations. Journal of Statistical Physics 105, 789–833 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013549126956
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