"The defocusing nonlinear Schr\""odinger equation with step-like oscillatory initial data"

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Authors: Samuel Fromm, J. Lenells, Ronald Quirchmayr 

Abstract: We study the Cauchy problem for the defocusing nonlinear Schr"odinger (NLS) equation under the assumption that the solution vanishes as $xo+infty$ and approaches an oscillatory plane wave as $xo-infty$. We first develop an inverse scattering transform formalism for solutions satisfying such step-like boundary conditions. Using this formalism, we prove that there exists a global solution of the corresponding Cauchy problem and establish a representation for this solution in terms of the solution of a Riemann-Hilbert problem. By performing a steepest descent analysis of this Riemann-Hilbert problem, we identify three asymptotic sectors in the half-plane $tgeq0$ of the $xt$-plane and derive asymptotic formulas for the solution in each of these sectors. Finally, by restricting the constructed solutions to the half-line $xgeq0$, we find a class of solutions with asymptotically time-periodic boundary values previously sought for in the context of the NLS half-line problem.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Riemann-Hilbert problems in context of PDEs (35Q15) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55)

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