Long-time asymptotics of the Newell equation on the line

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author Wang, Deng-Shan
Yang, Yingmin
author_facet Wang, Deng-Shan
Yang, Yingmin
contents In 1978, A. C. Newell [SIAM J. Appl. Math. 35(4) (1978) 650-664] proposed an exactly solvable model called Newell equation, which simulates the investigation of significant interaction mechanism between long and short waves. Nearly fifty years have passed, yet the long-time asymptotics of the Newell equation remains an open problem to date, with no results reported. In this work, the long-time asymptotic behaviors of the solutions to this model under Schwartz class initial conditions are studied by using the Riemann-Hilbert formulation. Through direct and inverse scattering analysis, the corresponding Riemann-Hilbert problem is formulated, and its relationship with the solution to the initial-value problem of the Newell equation is established. The existence and uniqueness of the solution to the Riemann-Hilbert problem is proved by vanishing lemma. Subsequently, the asymptotic expressions of the solution to the initial-value problem in the dispersive wave region are obtained by using the Deift-Zhou nonlinear steepest descent method. This work extends Newell's original results, providing a rigorous proof for the findings presented in Section 4 of his paper, along with explicit expressions. Furthermore, the comparison between direct numerical simulations and the theoretical results obtained in this paper demonstrates the reliability of the asymptotic expressions.
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Wang, Deng-Shan
Yang, Yingmin
Mathematical Physics
In 1978, A. C. Newell [SIAM J. Appl. Math. 35(4) (1978) 650-664] proposed an exactly solvable model called Newell equation, which simulates the investigation of significant interaction mechanism between long and short waves. Nearly fifty years have passed, yet the long-time asymptotics of the Newell equation remains an open problem to date, with no results reported. In this work, the long-time asymptotic behaviors of the solutions to this model under Schwartz class initial conditions are studied by using the Riemann-Hilbert formulation. Through direct and inverse scattering analysis, the corresponding Riemann-Hilbert problem is formulated, and its relationship with the solution to the initial-value problem of the Newell equation is established. The existence and uniqueness of the solution to the Riemann-Hilbert problem is proved by vanishing lemma. Subsequently, the asymptotic expressions of the solution to the initial-value problem in the dispersive wave region are obtained by using the Deift-Zhou nonlinear steepest descent method. This work extends Newell's original results, providing a rigorous proof for the findings presented in Section 4 of his paper, along with explicit expressions. Furthermore, the comparison between direct numerical simulations and the theoretical results obtained in this paper demonstrates the reliability of the asymptotic expressions.
title Long-time asymptotics of the Newell equation on the line
topic Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25703