Symmetry analysis and some new exact solutions of Born–Infeld equation

Abstract

This paper propounds the Lie group analysis method for finding exact solutions of Born–Infeld (BI) equation arising in nonlinear electrodynamics. We obtain generators of infinitesimal transformations, commutator table of Lie algebra, the complete geometric vector field, group symmetries and reduction equations. For the set of geometric vector field, we find an optimal system of the vector fields. Each element in this system helps to reduce the main equation into an ordinary differential equation, which provides analytical solution to the BI equation. We perform numerical simulation to obtain an appropriate visual appearance and dynamic behavior of the traced solutions. The nature of the solutions is investigated both analytically and physically through their evolutionary profile by considering appropriate choices of arbitrary constants.