Interactions of solitary waves under the conditions of the (3 + 1)-dimensional Kadomtsev–Petviashvilli equation

Abstract

Using an extended mapping method with a linear variable separation process, a new family of the exact solutions of the (3 + 1)-dimensional Kadomtsev–Petviashvilli (KP) equation was derived. By applying the solitary wave solutions, this paper studied some newly localized excitations and the interactions of various solitary waves under the conditions of the (3 + 1)-dimensional KP equation.