Spectral analysis of Darboux transformations for the focusing NLS hierarchy (Q2565903): Difference between revisions

The authors study the Lax differential operator of Dirac type used to generate solutions of the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation and introduce a Darboux transformation which modifies the potential to produce additional point eigenvalues. The Lax operator has the form \[ M(q)= i\left[\begin{matrix} d/dx & q\\ -\overline q & d/dx\end{matrix}\right] \] on \(L_2(\mathbb{R})^2\), where \(M(q)\) is formally \(J\) selfadjoint with \(J[u,v]^T= \left[\begin{smallmatrix} 0 & 1\\ 1 & 0\end{smallmatrix}\right][\overline u,\overline v]^T\). For \(q\in L^1_{\text{loc}}(\mathbb{R})\), the maximal operator \(D(q)\) determined by \(M(q)\) is proved to be \(J\) selfadjoint. Starting with the potential \(q(x)\) repeated application of the Darboux transformation is shown to produce a set of potentials \(q^{(1)}, q^{(2)},\dots, q^{(N)}\) which define operators \(D(q^{(N)})\) with the same spectrum as \(D(q)\) and \(2N\) additional arbitrarily assigned eigenvalues.