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Antisoliton


An antisoliton is the counterpart of a soliton with opposite topological charge, meaning that it connects the same asymptotic states in the reverse order. For the sine-Gordon equation, the soliton and antisoliton are respectively the kink and antikink solutions. A breather can be viewed as an oscillating bound soliton-antisoliton pair (Infeld and Rowlands 2000, pp. 200-201).


See also

Breather, Sine-Gordon Equation, Soliton

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References

Infeld, E. and Rowlands, G. Nonlinear Waves, Solitons, and Chaos, 2nd ed. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, pp. 200-201, 2000.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Antisoliton." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Antisoliton.html

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