Integrable semi-discretizations of the sine-Gordon equation in non-characteristic coordinates

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Main Author: Tsuchida, Takayuki
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contents Integrable discretizations of the sine-Gordon equation in characteristic (or light-cone) coordinates have been extensively studied after the seminal works of Hirota and Orfanidis in the late 1970s. In contrast, integrable discretizations of the sine-Gordon equation in non-characteristic coordinates have been scarcely studied except the lattice sine-Gordon model proposed by Izergin and Korepin in the early 1980s. In this paper, using the zero-curvature representation, we propose integrable space discretizations of the sine-Gordon equation in three distinct cases of non-characteristic coordinates. For the most interesting case of the sine-Gordon equation in laboratory coordinates, the integrable space discretization is unwieldy; as a remedy, we rewrite the sine-Gordon equation as a two-component evolutionary system and present an aesthetically acceptable space discretization.
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spellingShingle Integrable semi-discretizations of the sine-Gordon equation in non-characteristic coordinates
Tsuchida, Takayuki
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
Integrable discretizations of the sine-Gordon equation in characteristic (or light-cone) coordinates have been extensively studied after the seminal works of Hirota and Orfanidis in the late 1970s. In contrast, integrable discretizations of the sine-Gordon equation in non-characteristic coordinates have been scarcely studied except the lattice sine-Gordon model proposed by Izergin and Korepin in the early 1980s. In this paper, using the zero-curvature representation, we propose integrable space discretizations of the sine-Gordon equation in three distinct cases of non-characteristic coordinates. For the most interesting case of the sine-Gordon equation in laboratory coordinates, the integrable space discretization is unwieldy; as a remedy, we rewrite the sine-Gordon equation as a two-component evolutionary system and present an aesthetically acceptable space discretization.
title Integrable semi-discretizations of the sine-Gordon equation in non-characteristic coordinates
topic Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22919