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SIGMA, 2024 Volume 20, 070, 26 pp. (Mi sigma2072)

Soliton Condensates for the Focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation: a Non-Bound State Case

Alexander Tovbisa, Fudong Wangbc

a University of Central Florida, Orlando FL, USA
b School of Sciences, Great Bay University, Dongguan, P.R. China
c Great Bay Institute for Advanced Study, Dongguan, P.R. China

Abstract: In this paper, we study the spectral theory of soliton condensates – a special limit of soliton gases – for the focusing NLS (fNLS). In particular, we analyze the kinetic equation for the fNLS circular condensate, which represents the first example of an explicitly solvable fNLS condensate with nontrivial large scale space-time dynamics. Solution of the kinetic equation was obtained by reducing it to Whitham type equations for the endpoints of spectral arcs. We also study the rarefaction and dispersive shock waves for circular condensates, as well as calculate the corresponding average conserved quantities and the kurtosis. We want to note that one of the main objects of the spectral theory – the nonlinear dispersion relations – is introduced in the paper as some special large genus (thermodynamic) limit the Riemann bilinear identities that involve the quasimomentum and the quasienergy meromorphic differentials.

Keywords: soliton condensate, focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation, kurtosis, nonlinear dispersion relations, dispersive shock wave.

MSC: 37K40, 35P30, 37K10

Received: December 30, 2023; in final form July 16, 2024; Published online July 31, 2024

Language: English

DOI: 10.3842/SIGMA.2024.070


ArXiv: 2312.16406


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