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The Euler-Lagrange equation is obtained by varying the scalar field, integrating the derivative terms by parts, and requiring the coefficient of an arbitrary compactly supported variation to vanish:The canonical momentum is $\pi ={\varphi }_t$, so the Hamiltonian density and conserved energy areIndeed,Thus $dE/dt=[{\varphi }_t{\varphi }_x{]}_{-\infty }^{+\infty }=0$ for the finite-energy boundary conditions with no flux at infinity. The scalar-field vacua are the constant fields $2\pi m$, $m\in \mathbb{Z}$.

For a static field, multiply ${\varphi }^{\prime \prime }=\sin \varphi$ by ${\varphi }^{\prime }$ to obtain $\frac{1}{2}{\varphi }^{\prime 2}+\cos \varphi =C$. The vacuum limits fix $C=1$, so on the increasing interval $0<\varphi <2\pi$,ConsequentlyIts derivative is $2\mathrm{sech}(x-a)$, and its energy is $\int 4{\mathrm{sech}}^2(x-a)dx=8$. The increasing sign cannot change inside $(0,2\pi )$ because the derivative does not vanish there. This proves uniqueness up to translation for the prescribed boundary conditions.

There are continuously many translated static solutions with those same endpoints, but only one modulo translations. In the full theory, the adjacent-vacuum kinks and antikinks areTheir endpoints are $2\pi m$ and $2\pi (m+\sigma )$. Thus there are countably many adjacent-vacuum boundary sectors, each with a continuous center parameter; integer field shifts and reflection relate their shapes. A Lorentz boost gives moving kinks, replacing $x-a$ by $(x-vt-a)/\sqrt{1-v^2}$, with energy $8/\sqrt{1-v^2}$. There is no finite static kink joining nonadjacent scalar-field vacua: reaching an intermediate vacuum at finite $x$ would give both the equilibrium value and zero derivative, forcing a constant solution by uniqueness of the second-order initial value problem. Dynamical multisolitons are a different matter.

The printed Sine-Gordon Bäcklund transformation has a normalization error. With precisely the printed coordinates $\tau =x+t$, $\rho =x-t$,is the field equation. Put $s=({\varphi }_1+{\varphi }_0)/2$, $d=({\varphi }_1-{\varphi }_0)/2$. The printed relations give $d_{\rho }=b\sin s$ and $s_{\tau }=b^{-1}\sin d$, henceAdding and subtracting yieldsThese are the equations with mass squared four, not the unit-mass equation derived from the Lagrangian. A concrete counterexample is the seed ${\varphi }_0=0$, parameter $b=1$, and transformed field ${\varphi }_1=4\arctan e^{2x}$. It obeys both printed first-order relations but satisfies ${\varphi }_{1,xx}=4\sin {\varphi }_1$, so its unit-mass field-equation residual is $-3\sin {\varphi }_1$, which is not identically zero. The requested preservation claim is false with the printed normalization.

There are two equivalent repairs. Keep the printed first-order coefficients but take $\tau =(x+t)/2$, $\rho =(x-t)/2$; then ${\partial }_{\tau }{\partial }_{\rho }={\partial }_x^2-{\partial }_t^2$ and the preceding calculation proves preservation. Alternatively keep the printed coordinates and replace the coefficients $2b,2b^{-1}$ by $b,b^{-1}$. Then $d_{\rho }=(b/2)\sin s$, $s_{\tau }=(b^{-1}/2)\sin d$, and the differentiated equations carry a factor $1/4$, giving exactly ${\varphi }_{j,\tau \rho }=\frac{1}{4}\sin {\varphi }_j$. This is the light-cone normalization of the sine-Gordon Bäcklund transformation. For a zero seed it gives ${\varphi }_1=4\arctan \exp [(b\rho +b^{-1}\tau )/2]$; $b=1$ recovers the unit-width static kink.