Semiclassical WKB Problem for the non-self-adjoint Dirac operator

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Main Authors: Fujiié, Setsuro, Hatzizisis, Nicholas, Kamvissis, Spyridon
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author Fujiié, Setsuro
Hatzizisis, Nicholas
Kamvissis, Spyridon
author_facet Fujiié, Setsuro
Hatzizisis, Nicholas
Kamvissis, Spyridon
contents We review some recent rigorous results on the semiclassical behavior ($ε\downarrow0$) of the scattering data of a non-self-adjoint Dirac operator with potential $A\exp\{iS/ε\}$ where both $A$ and $S$ are differentiable functions tending to constants as $x \to \pm \infty$. We have either employed the so-called exact WKB method, or the older WKB theory of Olver. Our analysis is motivated by the need to understand the semiclassical behaviour of the focusing cubic NLS equation with initial data $A\exp\{iS/ε\}$, in view of the well-known fact discovered by Zakharov and Shabat that the spectral analysis of the Dirac operator enables us to obtain the solution of the NLS equation via inverse scattering theory.
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spellingShingle Semiclassical WKB Problem for the non-self-adjoint Dirac operator
Fujiié, Setsuro
Hatzizisis, Nicholas
Kamvissis, Spyridon
Spectral Theory
Analysis of PDEs
We review some recent rigorous results on the semiclassical behavior ($ε\downarrow0$) of the scattering data of a non-self-adjoint Dirac operator with potential $A\exp\{iS/ε\}$ where both $A$ and $S$ are differentiable functions tending to constants as $x \to \pm \infty$. We have either employed the so-called exact WKB method, or the older WKB theory of Olver. Our analysis is motivated by the need to understand the semiclassical behaviour of the focusing cubic NLS equation with initial data $A\exp\{iS/ε\}$, in view of the well-known fact discovered by Zakharov and Shabat that the spectral analysis of the Dirac operator enables us to obtain the solution of the NLS equation via inverse scattering theory.
title Semiclassical WKB Problem for the non-self-adjoint Dirac operator
topic Spectral Theory
Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09204