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Two-soliton solution for the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with nonvanishing boundary conditions

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Xiang-Jun Chen, Hui-Li Wang, Wa Kun Lam

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Submitted 20 Feb 2006 · 28 references

Pith's reading: An explicit two-soliton solution for the DNLS equation with nonvanishing boundary conditions is derived, and collision position shifts are shown to be independent of soliton brightness.

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CitationHui-Li Wang, Wa Kun Lam, Xiang-Jun Chen. "Two-soliton solution for the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with nonvanishing boundary conditions." arXiv:nlin/0602044 (2006). https://pith.science/paper/WBBQLLYR
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An explicit two-soliton solution for the DNLS equation with nonvanishing boundary conditions is derived, and collision position shifts are shown to be independent of soliton brightness.

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Nonlinear wave equations can have special wave packets called solitons that travel without changing shape and pass through each other almost untouched. The derivative nonlinear Schrödinger (DNLS) equation is used to model Alfvén waves in plasma and short light pulses in optical fibers. When the background wave is not zero, this equation supports both bright solitons, which are localized bumps on a background, and dark solitons, which are localized dips in a background. Earlier work could write two-soliton states only in implicit or modulus-only form, so collisions were hard to display.

This paper uses an inverse scattering method on a specially chosen parameter plane to write down an explicit two-soliton solution. The solution contains parameters that select whether each soliton is bright or dark. By letting time go far into the past and far into the future, the authors read off how much each soliton is shifted after a collision. They find that the faster soliton shifts forward and the slower one shifts backward, by amounts that do not depend on whether the solitons are bright or dark.

The calculation relies on two identities that are stated but not proved: a normalization relation for the scattering coefficients and an auxiliary differential identity used to compute a phase integral. These are plausible and consistent with earlier work, but a reader would need to verify them to fully confirm the explicit solution.

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The central claim is that the DNLS equation with nonvanishing boundary conditions admits the explicit reflectionless two-soliton solution u2 = rho A2 D2 divided by (conjugate D2)^2, with D2 and A2 given by Eqs. (33)-(34), and that for beta2 > beta1 the asymptotic collision is u2 approximately u1(theta1) + u1(theta2 + Delta) before collision and u2 approximately u1(theta1 + Delta) + u1(theta2) after, with Delta = 2 ln | sin(beta1 + beta2) / sin(beta1 - beta2) |, a shift independent of the bright/dark signs chi1 and chi2.

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The unproved differential identity in Eq. (35), Re(D2) d[Im(D2)]/dx - Im(D2) d[Re(D2)]/dx = (rho^2/4)(|D2|^2 - |A2|^2), is load-bearing: it is the only stated step connecting D2 and A2 to the phase integral eta2, and it yields the explicit two-soliton formula Eq. (37). If the identity does not hold for the D2 and A2 defined in Eqs. (33)-(34), the derivation of u2 collapses. The paper states 'With this relation' and gives no proof or reference.

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An explicit two-soliton solution for the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with nonvanishing boundary conditions is derived, demonstrating details of interactions between two bright solitons, two dark solitons, as well as one bright soliton and one dark soliton. Shifts of soliton positions due to collisions are analytically obtained, which are irrespective of the bright or dark characters of the participating solitons.

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An explicit two-soliton solution for the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with nonvanishing boundary conditions is derived, demonstrating details of interactions between two bright solitons, two dark solitons, as well as one bright soliton and one dark soliton. Shifts of soliton positions due to collisions are analytically obtained, which are irrespective of the bright or dark characters of the participating solitons.

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Figure 1. Collision between two bright solitons, ρ = 1, β1 = π/12, β2 = π/24. Variables in the figure are dimensionless. −40 −20 0 20 40 −30 −20 −10 0 10 20 30 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 x t |u| 2
Figure 2. Collision between two dark solitons, ρ = 1, β1 = π/15, β2 = π/6. Variables in the figure are dimensionless. 10
Figure 3. A bright soliton of β2 = 2π/15 chases a dark soliton of β1 = 7π/60, ρ = 1. Variables in the figure are dimensionless. −40 −20 0 20 40 −20 −10 0 10 20 0 1 2 x t |u| 2
Figure 4. A dark soliton of β2 = π/6 chases a bright soliton of β1 = π/12, ρ = 1. Variables in the figure are dimensionless. 11

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