The unified method. III: Nonlinearizable problems on the interval

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/45/19/195203MaRDI QIDQ2890763zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Lenells, A. S. Fokas

Publication date 12 June 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4937

zbMATH Keywords

Dirichlet to Neumann mapinitial boundary value problemnonlinear Schrödinger equationRiemann-Hilbert problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemann-Hilbert problems in context of PDEs (35Q15) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Inverse spectral and scattering methods for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K15)

Abstract: Boundary value problems for integrable nonlinear evolution PDEs formulated on the finite interval can be analyzed by the unified method introduced by one of the authors and used extensively in the literature. The implementation of this general method to this particular class of problems yields the solution in terms of the unique solution of a matrix Riemann-Hilbert problem formulated in the complex $k$-plane (the Fourier plane), which has a jump matrix with explicit $(x,t)$-dependence involving six scalar functions of $k$, called spectral functions. Two of these functions depend on the initial data, whereas the other four depend on all boundary values. The most difficult step of the new method is the characterization of the latter four spectral functions in terms of the given initial and boundary data, i.e. the elimination of the unknown boundary values. Here, we present an effective characterization of the spectral functions in terms of the given initial and boundary data. We present two different characterizations of this problem. One is based on the analysis of the so-called global relation, on the analysis of the equations obtained from the global relation via certain transformations leaving the dispersion relation of the associated linearized PDE invariant, and on the computation of the large $k$ asymptotics of the eigenfunctions defining the relevant spectral functions. The other is based on the analysis of the global relation and on the introduction of the so-called Gelfand-Levitan-Marchenko representations of the eigenfunctions defining the relevant spectral functions. We also show that these two different characterizations are equivalent and that in the limit when the length of the interval tends to infinity, the relevant formulas reduce to the analogous formulas obtained recently for the case of boundary value problems formulated on the half-line.

Review text

For Part I see Zbl 1256.35044; for Part II see Zbl 1256.35045.NEWLINENEWLINEThe third and the last paper of the series is devoted to the Riemann-Hilbert (RH) approach to the initial-boundary value problem (IBVP) for the NLS equation in \((x,t)\in[0,L]\times[0,T]\). The main difference between the present case and those considered in two previous papers is the increased number of the so-called spectral functions determining the jump matrices in the relevant RH problem. The authors construct the Dirichlet to Neumann and Neumann to Dirichlet maps expressing the boundary values of the normal derivatives \(q_x(0,t)\) and \(q_x(L,t)\) in terms of \(q(0,t)\) and \(q(L,t)\) and vice versa. These maps are used to construct the jump matrices in the RH problem for the well-posed (Dirichlet or Neumann) IBVPs and allow the authors to solve these IBVPs in terms of four auxiliary functions satisfying the system of nonlinear integral equations. The authors show that their formulas reproduce those in the first paper of the series obtained for \(L=\infty\). They also show that these formulas are effective in the sense they support a perturbative scheme for the case of the ``small boundary values.

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