Kenneth D. T. -R. McLaughlin

We present a new and relatively elementary method for studying the solution of the initial-value problem for dispersive linear and integrable equations in the large-$t$ limit, based on a generalization of steepest descent techniques for…

We study the Cauchy problem for the focusing nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation. Using the DBAR generalization of the nonlinear steepest descent method we compute the long time asymptotic expansion of the solution in any fixed space-time…

We consider weak solutions to dispersive partial differential equations with periodic boundary conditions and initial data with jump discontinuities. These are already known to be continuous at irrational times and piecewise constant at…

The small dispersion limit of the focusing nonlinear Schro\"odinger equation (NLS) exhibits a rich structure of sharply separated regions exhibiting disparate rapid oscillations at microscopic scales. The non self-adjoint scattering problem…