Nonlinear Sciences – Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
Scientific paper
2000-12-16
Nonlinear Sciences
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
215 Pages. Submitted to Annals of Mathematics Studies
Scientific paper
We present a new generalization of the steepest descent method introduced by Deift and Zhou for matrix Riemann-Hilbert problems and use it to study the semiclassical limit of the focusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation with real analytic, even, bell-shaped initial data. We provide explicit strong locally uniform asymptotics for a sequence of exact solutions corresponding to initial data that has been modified in an asymptotically small sense. We call this sequence of exact solutions a semiclassical soliton ensemble. Our asymptotics are valid in regions of the (x,t) plane where a certain scalar complex phase function can be found. We characterize this complex phase function directly by a finite-gap ansatz and also via the critical point theory of a certain functional; the latter provides the correct generalization of the variational principle exploited by Lax and Levermore in their study of the zero-dispersion limit of the Korteweg-de Vries equation.
Kamvissis Spyridon
McLaughlin Ken T. -R.
Miller Peter D.
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