On shifted periodic solutions of two nonlinear equations

Abstract

Using the linear superposition approach, we find periodic solutions with shifted periods and velocities of the (2 + 1)-dimensional modified Zakharov–Kuznetsov equation and the (3 + 1)-dimensional Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation by making appropriate linear superpositions of known periodic solutions. This unusual procedure of generating solutions of nonlinear evolution equations is successful as a consequence of some cyclic identities satisfied by the Jacobi elliptic functions which reduce by 2 (or a larger even number) the degree of cyclic homogeneous polynomials in Jacobi elliptic functions.