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The problem of breathers, solutions of a nonlinear homogeneous wave equation that are nontrivial, time-dependent and T-periodic is considered. A manifold of such solutions is shown to exist in a distributional sense and some qualitative properties of these solutions are described.
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- Wave Equation
- Nonlinear Wave Equation
- Distributional Solution
- Linear Wave Equation
- Semi Linear Wave Equation
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Smiley, M.W. (1989). Breathers for the Sine-Gordon equation. In: Gill, T.L., Zachary, W.W. (eds) Nonlinear Semigroups, Partial Differential Equations and Attractors. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1394. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0086762
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