Nonlinear Sciences – Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
Scientific paper
2007-02-14
Nonlinear Sciences
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
56 Pages, 21 Figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physd.2007.11.022
We study an integrable modification of the focusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation from the point of view of semiclassical asymptotics. In particular, (i) we establish several important consequences of the mixed-type limiting quasilinear system including the existence of maps that embed the limiting forms of both the focusing and defocusing nonlinear Schroedinger equations into the framework of a single limiting system for the modified equation, (ii) we obtain bounds for the location of discrete spectrum for the associated spectral problem that are particularly suited to the semiclassical limit and that generalize known results for the spectrum of the nonselfadjoint Zakharov-Shabat spectral problem, and (iii) we present a multiparameter family of initial data for which we solve the associated spectral problem in terms of special functions for all values of the semiclassical scaling parameter. We view our results as part of a broader project to analyze the semiclassical limit of the modified nonlinear Schroedinger equation via the noncommutative steepest descent procedure of Deift and Zhou, and we also present a self-contained development of a Riemann-Hilbert problem of inverse scattering that differs from those given in the literature and that is well-adapted to semiclassical asymptotics.
DiFranco Jeffery C.
Miller Peter D.
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