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This article studies the rational solutions of the Half-Wave Maps equation (HWM) in the non-singular spectrum case. We first provide characterizations to what we call \emph{scattering behavior}, and show that they imply scattering in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Gaspard Ohlmann

We investigate the long time dynamics of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with combined powers on the waveguide manifold $\mathbb{R}^d\times\mathbb{T}$. Different from the previously studied NLS-models with single power on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Luigi Forcella , Yongming Luo , Zehua Zhao

We consider the inhomogeneous fifth-order nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (ifoNLS) equation with nonzero boundary condition in detailed. Firstly, the spectral analysis of the scattering problem is carried out. A Riemann surface and affine…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2020-01-24 Jin-Jie Yang , Shou-Fu Tian , Zhi-Qiang Li

The semiclassical limit of the focusing Nonlinear (cubic) Schr\" odinger Equation (NLS) corresponds to the singularly perturbed Zakharov Shabat (ZS) system that defines the direct and inverse scattering transforms (IST). In this paper, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-17 Alexander Tovbis , Stephanos Venakides

We study a Schr\"odinger equation in the upper half-space with a nonlinear Neumann boundary interaction driven by the Bessel operator $\Ba$, $a>-1$. The problem arises naturally as an extension formulation for a nonlocal NLS with memory and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Nicola Garofalo , Gigliola Staffilani

We study scattering for the linear Helmholtz operator in two dimensions and develop a technique, which can be used to ascertain scattering of a given incident wave from very regular inhomogeneities. This technique is then applied to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Narek Hovsepyan , Michael S. Vogelius

We study a spherical, self-gravitating fluid model, which finds applications in cosmic structure formation. We argue that since the system features nonlinearity and gravity-induced dispersion, the emergence of solitons becomes possible. We…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-02-21 G. N. Koutsokostas , S. Sypsas , O. Evnin , T. P. Horikis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We investigate the defocusing inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $$ i \partial_tu + \Delta u = |x|^{-b} \left({\rm e}^{\alpha|u|^2} - 1- \alpha |u|^2 \right) u, \quad u(0)=u_0, \quad x \in \mathbb{R}^2, $$ with $0<b<1$ and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Abdelwahab Bensouilah , Van Duong Dinh , Mohamed Majdoub

This paper is devoted to the study of the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a self-consistent source and nonzero boundary conditions by the method of the inverse scattering problem. In cases where the source consists of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-12 Anvar Reyimberganov

We study the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an inverse-square potential in dimensions $3\leq d \leq 6$. We consider both focusing and defocusing nonlinearities in the mass-supercritical and energy-subcritical regime. In the focusing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-01 Jing Lu , Changxing Miao , Jason Murphy

Consider an isotropic elastic medium $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^3$ whose Lam\'e parameters are piecewise smooth. In the elastic wave initial value inverse problem, we are given the solution operator for the elastic wave equation, but only…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-14 Peter Caday , Maarten V. de Hoop , Vitaly Katsnelson , Gunther Uhlmann

We consider the inverse scattering transform for the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation in laboratory coordinates (NLSLab equation) with nonzero boundary conditions (NZBCs) at infinity. In order to better deal with the scattering problem of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2019-11-05 Jin-Jin Mao , Shou-Fu Tian

In this note we prove scattering for a defocusing nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation with initial data lying in a critical Besov space. In addition, we obtain polynomial bounds on the scattering size as a function of the critical Besov…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-15 Benjamin Dodson

The nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger (NLS) equation is a ubiquitous example of an envelope wave equation for conservative, dispersive systems. We revisit here the problem of self-similar focusing of waves in the case of the focusing NLS equation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 C. I. Siettos , I. G. Kevrekidis , P. G. Kevrekidis

We study the instability of standing waves for nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations. Under a general assumption on nonlinearity, we prove that linear instability implies orbital instability in any dimension. For that purpose, we establish a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-08-26 Vladimir Georgiev , Masahito Ohta

We present a method to solve numerically the Cauchy problem for the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (NLS) equation with a box-type initial condition (IC) having a nontrivial background of amplitude $q_o>0$ as $x\to \pm \infty$ by…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2025-09-11 Aikaterini Gkogkou , Barbara Prinari , Thomas Trogdon

We show the relationship between the strongly non-linear limit (also termed the dispersionless or the Whitham limit) of the macroscopic fluctuation theory of certain statistical models and the inverse scattering method. We show that in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-08 Eldad Bettelheim

In this paper, we study the inverse scattering problem for a class of signals that have a compactly supported reflection coefficient. The problem boils down to the solution of the Gelfand-Levitan-Marchenko (GLM) integral equations with a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Vishal Vaibhav

We show, in general, how to transform the nonautonomous nonlinear Schroedinger equation with quadratic Hamiltonians into the standard autonomous form that is completely integrable by the familiar inverse scattering method in nonlinear…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 Sergei K. Suslov

A multilayered particle is illuminated by plane acoustic or electromagnetic waves of one or several frequencies. We consider the inverse scattering problem for the identification of the layers and of the refraction coefficients of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Semion Gutman