Existence and regularity for an energy maximization problem in two dimensions

DOI10.1063/1.1985069zbMATH Open1110.81083arXiv0907.5571OpenAlexW2963884005MaRDI QIDQ3438569FDOQ3438569

Authors: Spyridon Kamvissis, E. A. Rakhmanov 

Publication date: 16 May 2007

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the variational problem of maximizing the weighted equilibrium Green's energy of a distribution of charges free to move in a subset of the upper half-plane, under a particular external field. We show that this problem admits a solution and that, under some conditions, this solution is an S-curve (in the sense of Gonchar-Rakhmanov). The above problem appears in the theory of the semiclassical limit of the integrable focusing nonlinear Schr"odinger equation. In particular, its solution provides a justification of a crucial step in the asymptotic theory of nonlinear steepest descent for the inverse scattering problem of the associated linear non-self-adjoint Zakharov-Shabat operator and the equivalent Riemann-Hilbert factorization problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.5571

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Existence theories for optimal control problems involving partial differential equations (49J20) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)

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