On the modified nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the semiclassical limit: supersonic, subsonic, and transonic behavior

DOI10.1016/S0252-9602(11)60405-0MaRDI QIDQ453405zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeffery C. DiFranco, Peter D. Miller, Benson Muite

Publication date 5 October 2012

Published in Acta Mathematica Scientia. Series B. (English Edition) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1036

zbMATH Keywords

defocusingmodulational instabilityfocusingdispersionless limitssemiclassical limitsmodified nonlinear Schrödinger equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton theory, asymptotic behavior of solutions of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems (37K40) Riemann-Hilbert problems in context of PDEs (35Q15) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) PDEs of mixed type (35M10)

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present a comparison between the modified nonlinear Schr"odinger (MNLS) equation and the focusing and defocusing variants of the (unmodified) nonlinear Schr"odinger (NLS) equation in the semiclassical limit. We describe aspects of the limiting dynamics and discuss how the nature of the dynamics is evident theoretically through inverse-scattering and noncommutative steepest descent methods. The main message is that, depending on initial data, the MNLS equation can behave either like the defocusing NLS equation, like the focusing NLS equation (in both cases the analogy is asymptotically accurate in the semiclassical limit when the NLS equation is posed with appropriately modified initial data), or like an interesting mixture of the two. In the latter case, we identify a feature of the dynamics analogous to a sonic line in gas dynamics, a free boundary separating subsonic flow from supersonic flow.

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