Regular and embedded solitons in a generalized Pochammer PDE

Variational methods are employed to generate families of both regular and embedded solitary wave solutions for a generalized Pochammer PDE that is currently of great interest. The technique for obtaining the embedded solitons incorporates several recent generalizations of the usual variational technique and is thus topical in itself. One unusual feature of the solitary waves derived here is that we are able to obtain them in analytical form (within the family of the trial functions). Thus, a direct error analysis is performed, showing the accuracy of the resulting solitary waves. Given the importance of solitary wave solutions in wave dynamics and information propagation in nonlinear PDEs, is well as the fact that only the parameter regimes for the existence of solitary waves had previously been analyzed for the microstructure PDE considered here. the results obtained here are both new and timely. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved