Long time and Painlev\'{e}-type asymptotics for the defocusing Hirota equation with finite density initial data
Abstract
In this work, we consider the Cauchy problem for the defocusing Hirota equation with a nonzero background \begin{align} \begin{cases} iq_{t}+\alpha\left[q_{xx}-2\left(\left\vert q\right\vert^{2}-1\right)q\right]+i\beta\left(q_{xxx}-6\left\vert q\right\vert^{2}q_{x}\right)=0,\quad (x,t)\in \mathbb{R}\times(0,+\infty),\\ q(x,0)=q_{0}(x),\qquad \underset{x\rightarrow\pm\infty 1}{\lim} q_{0}(x)=\pm 1, \qquad q_{0}\mp 1\in H^{4,4}(\mathbb{R}). \end{cases} \nonumber \end{align} According to the Riemann-Hilbert problem representation of the Cauchy problem and the generalization of the nonlinear steepest descent method, we find different long time asymptotics types for the defocusing Hirota equation in oscillating region and transition region, respectively. For the oscillating region , four phase points appear on the jump contour , which arrives at an asymptotic expansion,given by \begin{align} q(x,t)=-1+t^{-1/2}h+O(t^{-3/4}).\nonumber \end{align} It consists of three terms. The first term is leading term representing a nonzero background, the second term originates from the continuous spectrum and the third term is the error term due to pure -RH problem. For the transition region , three phase points raise on the jump contour . Painlev\'{e} asymptotics expansion is obtained \begin{align} q(x,t)=-1-(\frac{15}{4}t)^{-1/3}\varrho+O(t^{-1/2}),\nonumber \end{align} in which the leading term is a solution to the Painlev\'{e} II equation, the last term is a residual error being from pure -RH problem and parabolic cylinder model.
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@article{arxiv.2307.15722,
title = {Long time and Painlev\'{e}-type asymptotics for the defocusing Hirota equation with finite density initial data},
author = {Wei-Qi Peng and Yong Chen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.15722},
year = {2023}
}