Instability in nonlinear Schrödinger breathers

DOI10.4067/S0716-09172017000400653zbMATH Open1391.35358arXiv1608.08169MaRDI QIDQ4642500FDOQ4642500

Authors: Claudio Muñoz 

Publication date: 23 May 2018

Published in: Proyecciones (Antofagasta) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the emph{focusing} nonlinear Schr"odinger equation posed on the one dimensional line, with nonzero background condition at spatial infinity, given by a homogeneous plane wave. For this problem of physical interest, we study the initial value problem for perturbations of the background wave in Sobolev spaces. It is well-known that the associated linear dynamics for this problem describes a phenomenon known in the literature as emph{modulational instability}, also recently related to the emergence of emph{rogue waves} in ocean dynamics. In qualitative terms, small perturbations of the background state increase its size exponentially in time. In this paper we show that, even if there is no time decay for the linear dynamics due to the modulationally unstable regime, the equation is still locally well-posed in $H^s$, $s>frac12$. We apply this result to give a rigorous proof of the unstable character of two well-known NLS solutions: the Peregrine and Kuznetsov-Ma breathers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08169

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zbMATH Keywords

modulationwell-posednessbreatherinstabilitySchrödingerPeregrine

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Soliton equations (35Q51) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55)

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