Regularization of a sharp shock by the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/28/7/2131zbMATH Open1322.35107arXiv1402.4708OpenAlexW2964021073MaRDI QIDQ2944159FDOQ2944159

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Publication date: 28 August 2015

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The defocusing nonlinear Schr"odinger (NLS) equation is studied for a family of step-like initial data with piecewise constant amplitude and phase velocity with a single jump discontinuity at the origin. Riemann-Hilbert and steepest descent techniques are used to study the long time/zero-dispersion limit of the solution to NLS associated to this family of initial data. We show that the initial discontinuity is regularized in the long time/zero-dispersion limit by the emergence of five distinct regions in the $(x,t)$ half-plane. These are left, right, and central plane waves separated by a rarefaction wave on the left and a slowly modulated elliptic wave on the right. Rigorous derivations of the leading order asymptotic behavior and error bounds are presented

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.4708

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zbMATH Keywords

integrable systemsRiemann-Hilbert problemslong-time asymptoticsnonlinear opticsdispersive shock wavesdispersive regularizationnonlinear Schrödinger equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Riemann-Hilbert problems in context of PDEs (35Q15) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Inverse spectral and scattering methods for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K15) Shock waves and blast waves in fluid mechanics (76L05)

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