Painlevé-type asymptotics for the defocusing Manakov system with nonzero boundary conditions

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Main Authors: Zhang, Haibing, Geng, Xianguo, Li, Ruomeng, Liu, Huan
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author Zhang, Haibing
Geng, Xianguo
Li, Ruomeng
Liu, Huan
author_facet Zhang, Haibing
Geng, Xianguo
Li, Ruomeng
Liu, Huan
contents We investigate the long-time asymptotic behavior of a class of solutions to the defocusing Manakov system under nonzero boundary conditions. These solutions are characterized by a $3 \times 3$ matrix Riemann Hilbert problem. We find that they exhibit interesting asymptotic behavior within a narrow transition zone in the $x$-$t$ plane. We determine the leading-order asymptotic term and the error bound in this region, and we demonstrate that the leading term can be expressed in terms of the Hastings-McLeod solution of the Painlevé II equation. The proof is rigorously established by applying the Deift-Zhou nonlinear steepest descent method to the associated Riemann Hilbert problem.
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spellingShingle Painlevé-type asymptotics for the defocusing Manakov system with nonzero boundary conditions
Zhang, Haibing
Geng, Xianguo
Li, Ruomeng
Liu, Huan
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
We investigate the long-time asymptotic behavior of a class of solutions to the defocusing Manakov system under nonzero boundary conditions. These solutions are characterized by a $3 \times 3$ matrix Riemann Hilbert problem. We find that they exhibit interesting asymptotic behavior within a narrow transition zone in the $x$-$t$ plane. We determine the leading-order asymptotic term and the error bound in this region, and we demonstrate that the leading term can be expressed in terms of the Hastings-McLeod solution of the Painlevé II equation. The proof is rigorously established by applying the Deift-Zhou nonlinear steepest descent method to the associated Riemann Hilbert problem.
title Painlevé-type asymptotics for the defocusing Manakov system with nonzero boundary conditions
topic Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18430