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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…
We study the Cauchy problem for the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation under the assumption that the solution vanishes as $x \to + \infty$ and approaches an oscillatory plane wave as $x \to -\infty$. We first develop an…
We consider the semiclassical (zero-dispersion) limit of the one-dimensional focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger equation (NLS) with decaying potentials. If a potential is a simple rapidly oscillating wave (the period has the order of the…
The long-time asymptotic behavior of the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation on the line with symmetric nonzero boundary conditions at infinity is characterized by using the recently developed inverse scattering transform (IST)…
The long-time asymptotic behavior of solutions to the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation on the line with symmetric, nonzero boundary conditions at infinity is studied in the case of initial conditions that allow for the…
We consider the one-dimensional focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with a delta potential and even initial data. The problem is equivalent to the solution of the initial/boundary problem for NLS on a half-line with Robin…
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We study the initial value problem for the integrable nonlocal nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NNLS) equation \[ iq_{t}(x,t)+q_{xx}(x,t)+2\sigma q^{2}(x,t)\bar{q}(-x,t)=0 \] with decaying (as $x\to\pm\infty$) boundary conditions. The main aim is…
We study a fractional version of the two-dimensional discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) equation, where the usual discrete Laplacian is replaced by its fractional form that depends on a fractional exponent $s$ that interpolates…
We study a first-order hyperbolic approximation of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation. We show that the system is strictly hyperbolic and possesses a modified Hamiltonian structure, along with at least three conserved quantities…
We present a new method for obtaining sharp asymptotics of solutions of the defocussing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation, based on dbar methods and under essentially minimal regularity assumptions on initial data.
From among the waves whose dynamics are governed by the nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation, we find a robust, spatiotemporally disordered family, in which waves initialized with increasing amplitudes, on average, over long time scales,…
Dispersive shock waves (DSWs) of the defocusing radial nonlinear Schr\"odinger (rNLS) equation in two spatial dimensions are studied. This equation arises naturally in Bose-Einstein condensates, water waves and nonlinear optics. A unified…
We study the long time dynamics of the defocussing NLS equation. Compared with previous literature, we revisit the direct and inverse scattering map to obtain asymptotics in some weighted energy space that requires less restrictive decay…
In this paper, we use the $\bar{\partial}$ steepest descent method to study the initial value problem for focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (fNLS) equation with non-generic weighted Sobolev initial data that allows for the presence of…
We examine a fractional version of the discrete Nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (dnls) equation, where the usual discrete laplacian is replaced by a fractional discrete laplacian. This leads to the replacement of the usual nearest-neighbor…
We introduce and systematically investigate the generation of dispersive shock waves, which arise naturally in physical settings such as optical waveguide arrays and superfluids confined within optical lattices. The underlying physically…
We consider solutions of the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation on the half-line whose Dirichlet and Neumann boundary values become periodic for sufficiently large $t$. We prove a theorem which, modulo certain assumptions,…
We consider dispersive shock wave to the focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation generated by a discontinuous initial condition which is periodic or quasi-periodic on the left semi-axis and zero on the right semi-axis. As an initial…
The semiclassical (zero-dispersion) limit of the one-dimensional focusing Nonlinear Schroedinger equation (NLS) with decaying potentials is studied in a full scaling neighborhood D of the point of gradient catastrophe (x_0,t_0). This…