On Universality of Critical Behavior in the Focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation, Elliptic Umbilic Catastrophe and the Tritronquée Solution to the Painlevé-I Equation

B. Dubrovin, Tamara Grava, C Klein

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Abstract

We argue that the critical behavior near the point of “gradient catastrophe” of the solution to the Cauchy problem for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation iϵΨ t +ϵ 2 2 Ψ xx +|Ψ| 2 Ψ=0 , ε≪1, with analytic initial data of the form Ψ(x,0;ϵ)=A(x)e i ϵ S(x) is approximately described by a particular solution to the Painlevé-I equation.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)57-94
Number of pages38
JournalJournal of Nonlinear Science
Volume19
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2009

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