The focusing NLS equation with step-like oscillating background: the genus \(3\) sector (Q2113502)

In this work, the authors investigate the long-time behavior of the solutions of the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation on the real line, generated from a Cauchy data close to plane waves at infinity. Their main goal consists to perform a complete asymptotic analysis according to \(\xi= x/t\) of the solutions of the Cauchy problem \[ \left\{ \begin{array}{rcl} i q_t + q_{xx} + 2 |q|^ {2} q& = &0\\ { q}{}_{|t=0} &= &q_0, \end{array} \right. \] with \(q_0\) exhibiting the following asymptotic at infinity \[ q_0(x) \sim \left\{ \begin{array}{rcl} A_1 e^{i \varphi_1} e^{-2i B_1 x}, & x \to + \infty& \\ A_2 e^{i \varphi_2} e^{-2i B_2 x}, & x \to - \infty.& \end{array} \right. \] More precisely, the authors provide uniformly in a sector \(\xi_1\leq \xi \leq \xi_2\) the long-time asymptotic of \(q\), up to a remainder term, with a leading term explicitly expressed by means of hyperbolic theta functions and a sub-leading term involving parabolic cylinder and Airy functions.