2025/07/01 by Lin Huang, Deng‐Shan Wang, Xiaodong Zhu · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Mathematics · #Nonlinear Waves and Solitons #Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems #Nonlinear Photonic Systems
paper · doi:10.1111/sapm.70075
ABSTRACT This paper presents a Riemann–Hilbert (RH) problem formalism for the initial value problem of the Sawada–Kotera equation defined on the real line. Assuming the existence of a solution, we establish that this solution can be effectively represented by solving a matrix RH problem. Notably, the formulation of this RH problem involves four spectral functions: , , , and , which are obtained via a nonlinear Fourier transform applied to the initial data. Furthermore, this study conducts a detailed spectral analysis, providing a foundation for the application of the nonlinear steepest descent method to determine the long‐time asymptotic behavior of solutions to the Sawada–Kotera equation on the real line.