Solitons, the Korteweg-de Vries equation with step boundary values, and pseudo-embedded eigenvalues

DOI10.1063/1.5026332zbMATH Open1410.35163arXiv1802.03114OpenAlexW2963712994WikidataQ129471947 ScholiaQ129471947MaRDI QIDQ4687685FDOQ4687685

Authors: Mark J. Ablowitz, Xu-Dan Luo, Justin T. Cole 

Publication date: 12 October 2018

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

Abstract: The Korteweg-deVries (KdV) equation with step boundary conditions is considered, with an emphasis on soliton dynamics. When one or more initial solitons are of sufficient size they can propagate through the step; in this case the phase shift is calculated via the inverse scattering transform. On the other hand, when the amplitude is too small they become trapped. In the trapped case the transmission coefficient of the associated associated linear Schr"odinger equation can become large at a point exponentially close to the continuous spectrum. This point is referred to as a {it pseudo-embedded eigenvalue}. Employing the inverse problem it is shown that the continuous spectrum associated with a branch cut in the neighborhood of the pseudo-embedded eigenvalue plays the role of discrete spectra, which in turn leads to a trapped soliton in the KdV equation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.03114

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zbMATH Keywords

Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equationscattering and inverse scattering theorySchrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton solutions (35C08) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Inverse spectral and scattering methods for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K15) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Inverse scattering problems in quantum theory (81U40)

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