On the Whitham equations for the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation with step initial data

DOI10.1007/s00332-005-0733-2zbMath1110.35080arXivnlin/0508036MaRDI QIDQ862436

Publication date: 24 January 2007

Published in: Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0508036

zbMATH Keywords

short optical pulses; dispersive regularization; finite-genus solutions: NLS-Whitham equations; weak dispersion limit

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

37K10: Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.)

35Q55: NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations)

78A60: Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics

37K40: Soliton theory, asymptotic behavior of solutions of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems

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