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  • Kinetic Equation for Solito...
    Ferapontov, E.V.; Pavlov, M. V.

    Journal of nonlinear science, 04/2022, Letnik: 32, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    Macroscopic dynamics of soliton gases can be analytically described by the thermodynamic limit of the Whitham equations, yielding an integro-differential kinetic equation for the density of states. Under a delta-functional ansatz, the kinetic equation for soliton gas reduces to a non-diagonalisable system of hydrodynamic type whose matrix consists of several 2 × 2 Jordan blocks. Here we demonstrate the integrability of this system by showing that it possesses a hierarchy of commuting hydrodynamic flows and can be solved by an extension of the generalised hodograph method. Our approach is a generalisation of Tsarev’s theory of diagonalisable systems of hydrodynamic type to quasilinear systems with non-trivial Jordan block structure.