Higher order asymptotics for the Hirota equation via Deift–Zhou higher order theory》.pdfVIP

Physics Letters A 379 (2015) 16–22 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Physics Letters A /locate/pla Higher order asymptotics for the Hirota equation via Deift–Zhou higher order theory Lin Huang a , Jian Xu b , En-gui Fan a,∗ a School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, PR China b College of Science, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: In this paper, the Deift–Zhou higher order asymptotic theory is used to further establish the full Received 20 September 2014 asymptotic expansion for the solution of the Hirota equation to all order, as t → ∞. The method is Received in revised form 16 October 2014 rigorous and does not rely on an a priori ansatz for the form of the solution. Accepted 22 October 2014 © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Available online 31 October 2014 Communicated by R. Wu Keywords: Hirota equation Riemann–Hilbert problem Deift–Zhou higher order theory 1. Introduction in a number of papers [4–11] and their references, where multi- solitons, breathers, rogue waves, bright and dark optical soliton In this paper, we consider