An investigation into the effect of product approximation in the numerical solution of the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (Q1100873)

The authors study the effect of product approximation on the Galerkin solutions of the one-dimensional cubic Schrödinger equation \(i(\partial u/\partial x)+\partial^ 2u/\partial x^ 2+| u|^ 2u=0,\) \(x\in {\mathbb{R}}\), \(t>0\), \(u(x,0)=f(x),\) \(x\in {\mathbb{R}}\), where the solution u is complex valued and f is some sufficiently smooth function which decreases exponentially as \(| x|\) tends to infinity. A Crank-Nicolson scheme is used to discretize in time. The paper describes two numerical experiments.