Evaluating the robustness of rogue waves under perturbations (Q2231951)

The authors address the question of whether rogue wave structures can persist under different types of perturbations in the realm of NLS (Nonlinear Schrödinger) equations. They use a Newton-conjugate gradient method to identify the Peregrine soliton solutions, both on top of a homogeneous background and on top of a cnoidal-wave background. It is verified that such solutions can be identified both for the case of a power law nonlinearity (beyond the cubic integrable limit) and for a model with third-order dispersion, as well as in a model that combines both of the above integrability-breaking perturbations. This methodology is illustrated for different perturbations of NLS models. In particular, in addition to benchmarking known solutions (and confirming their numerical propagation under controllable error) this enables the continuation of such solutions over parametric variations to non-integrable models. The authors included an example of the code which is used to obtain rogue waves.