Novel high‐order breathers and rogue waves in the Boussinesq equation via determinants

Abstract

By virtue of the bilinear method and the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (KP) hierarchy reduction technique, wider classes of high‐order breather and semirational and rogue wave solutions to the Boussinesq equation are derived. These solutions are presented explicitly in terms of Gram determinants, whose matrix elements have simply algebraic expressions. The breather and rogue wave solutions are derived from two different types of tau functions of a bilinear equation in the single‐component KP hierarchy. By taking a long wave limit of high‐order breather solutions, a range of hybrid solutions consisting of solitons, breathers, and one fundamental rogue wave are generated. For the rational rogue waves, some typical patterns such as Peregrine‐type, triple, and sextuple rogue waves are put forward by modifying the input parameters. Besides, a new rogue wave pattern of third‐order rogue waves is found, which features a mixture of a triangular pattern of three fundamental rogue waves and a fundamental pattern of second‐order rogue wave. These results may help understand the protean rogue wave manifestations in areas ranging from water waves to fluid dynamics.