What is known as the sine-Gordon equation is the partial differential equation on a scalar field on 1+1-dimensional Minkowski spacetime which asserts that the value of its wave operator equals (minus) its sine.
As such the name is a pun on the Klein-Gordon equation which (also in higher spacetime dimension) has this same form except that in place of the sine there is a mass term (and possibly in addition a potential energy, gauge coupling, etc.).
The sine-Gordon equation is an integrable model which admits soliton solutions. It is dual, in some sense, to the Thirring model?.
Jesús Cuevas-Maraver, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, Floyd Williams (eds.), The sine-Gordon Model and its Applications, Spinger (2014) [doi:10.1007/978-3-319-06722-3]
Alessandro Torrielli, LonTI Lectures on Sine-Gordon and Thirring [arXiv:2211.01186]
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