PILOT-WAVE HYDRODYNAMICS: QUANTISATION OF PARTIAL INTEGRABILITY FROM A NONLINEAR INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION OF THE SECOND ORDER.

Vertically vibrating a liquid bath may allow a self-propelled wave-particle entity to move on its free surface. The horizontal dynamics of this walking droplet, under the constraint of an external drag force, can be described adequately by an integro-differential trajectory equation. For a sinusoidal wave field, this equation is equivalent to a closed three-dimensional system of nonlinear ODEs. We explicitly define a stability boundary for the system and a quantised criterion for its partial integrability in the meromorphic category. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]