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rogue-waves

swMATH ID: 32953
Software Authors: Bilman, Deniz; Ling, Liming; Miller, Peter D.
Description: Extreme superposition: rogue waves of infinite order and the Painlevé-III hierarchy. We study the fundamental rogue wave solutions of the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the limit of large order. Using a recently proposed Riemann-Hilbert representation of the rogue wave solution of arbitrary order (k), we establish the existence of a limiting profile of the rogue wave in the large-(k) limit when the solution is viewed in appropriate rescaled variables capturing the near-field region where the solution has the largest amplitude. The limiting profile is a new particular solution of the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the rescaled variables – the rogue wave of infinite order – which also satisfies ordinary differential equations with respect to space and time. The spatial differential equations are identified with certain members of the Painlevé-III hierarchy. We compute the far-field asymptotic behavior of the near-field limit solution and compare the asymptotic formulas with the exact solution using numerical methods for solving Riemann-Hilbert problems. In a certain transitional region for the asymptotics, the near-field limit function is described by a specific globally defined tritronquée solution of the Painlevé-II equation. These properties lead us to regard the rogue wave of infinite order as a new special function.
Homepage: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00545
Source Code:  https://github.com/bilman/rogue-waves
Keywords: rogue waves; equations and hierarchies of Painlevé type; nonlinear Schrödinger equation; Riemann-Hilbert problems; spectral singularities
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