Sine-Gordon

Classical field theory

The Sine-Gordon equation corresponds to a Klein-Gordon equation with a source term of the form $\sin(\varphi)$.

\begin{equation} \Box \varphi - g \sin(\varphi) = 0 \end{equation}

While highly nonlinear, this can be solved in two dimensions thanks to the inverse scattering transform.

In null coordinates $u,v = (x \pm t)/2$, the Sine-Gordon can be recast as

\begin{equation} \partial_u \partial_v \varphi = g \sin(\varphi(u, v)) \end{equation}

A few solutions of the Sine-Gordon equations are known,

Inverse scattering transform

Lax pair :