28 research outputs found

    Nonsingular solutions of Hitchin's equations for noncompact gauge groups

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    We consider a general ansatz for solving the 2-dimensional Hitchin's equations, which arise as dimensional reduction of the 4-dimensional self-dual Yang-Mills equations, with remarkable integrability properties. We focus on the case when the gauge group G is given by a real form of SL(2,C). For G=SO(2,1), the resulting field equations are shown to reduce to either the Liouville, elliptic sinh-Gordon or elliptic sine-Gordon equations. As opposed to the compact case, given by G=SU(2), the field equations associated with the noncompact group SO(2,1) are shown to have smooth real solutions with nonsingular action densities, which are furthermore localized in some sense. We conclude by discussing some particular solutions, defined on R^2, S^2 and T^2, that come out of this ansatz.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Nonlinearit

    On the location of poles for the Ablowitz-Segur family of solutions to the second Painlev\'e equation

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    Using a simple operator-norm estimate we show that the solution to the second Painlev\'e equation within the Ablowitz-Segur family is pole-free in a well defined region of the complex plane of the independent variable. The result is illustrated with several numerical examples.Comment: 8 pages, to appear in Nonlinearit

    Long-Time Asymptotics of the Toda Lattice for Decaying Initial Data Revisited

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    The purpose of this article is to give a streamlined and self-contained treatment of the long-time asymptotics of the Toda lattice for decaying initial data in the soliton and in the similarity region via the method of nonlinear steepest descent.Comment: 41 page

    Inverse scattering transform for the Toda hierarchy with steplike finite-gap backgrounds

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    We provide a rigorous treatment of the inverse scattering transform for the entire Toda hierarchy for solutions which are asymptotically close to (in general) different finite-gap solutions as n±n\to\pm\infty.Comment: 10 page

    Stability of the periodic Toda lattice under short range perturbations

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    We consider the stability of the periodic Toda lattice (and slightly more generally of the algebro-geometric finite-gap lattice) under a short range perturbation. We prove that the perturbed lattice asymptotically approaches a modulated lattice. More precisely, let gg be the genus of the hyperelliptic curve associated with the unperturbed solution. We show that, apart from the phenomenon of the solitons travelling on the quasi-periodic background, the n/tn/t-pane contains g+2g+2 areas where the perturbed solution is close to a finite-gap solution in the same isospectral torus. In between there are g+1g+1 regions where the perturbed solution is asymptotically close to a modulated lattice which undergoes a continuous phase transition (in the Jacobian variety) and which interpolates between these isospectral solutions. In the special case of the free lattice (g=0g=0) the isospectral torus consists of just one point and we recover the known result. Both the solutions in the isospectral torus and the phase transition are explicitly characterized in terms of Abelian integrals on the underlying hyperelliptic curve. Our method relies on the equivalence of the inverse spectral problem to a matrix Riemann--Hilbert problem defined on the hyperelliptic curve and generalizes the so-called nonlinear stationary phase/steepest descent method for Riemann--Hilbert problem deformations to Riemann surfaces.Comment: 38 pages, 1 figure. This version combines both the original version and arXiv:0805.384

    Quasi-linear Stokes phenomenon for the second Painlev\'e transcendent

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    Using the Riemann-Hilbert approach, we study the quasi-linear Stokes phenomenon for the second Painlev\'e equation yxx=2y3+xyαy_{xx}=2y^3+xy-\alpha. The precise description of the exponentially small jump in the dominant solution approaching α/x\alpha/x as x|x|\to\infty is given. For the asymptotic power expansion of the dominant solution, the coefficient asymptotics is found.Comment: 19 pages, LaTe

    Hard loss of stability in Painlev\'e-2 equation

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    A special asymptotic solution of the Painlev\'e-2 equation with small parameter is studied. This solution has a critical point tt_* corresponding to a bifurcation phenomenon. When t<tt<t_* the constructed solution varies slowly and when t>tt>t_* the solution oscillates very fast. We investigate the transitional layer in detail and obtain a smooth asymptotic solution, using a sequence of scaling and matching procedures
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