1. Introduction
Let $q(x)\in {L}^{2}({\mathbb{R}})$ and ${s}_{11}(\lambda )$ be the reciprocal of the transmission coefficient of the modified Zakharov–Shabat spectral problem (
(1) $\mathrm{ln}{s}_{11}(\lambda )=\displaystyle \sum _{j=1}^{\infty }{b}_{2j}(\lambda )$ with $\begin{eqnarray}\begin{array}{l}{b}_{2j}(\lambda )={\left(-1\right)}^{j}{\displaystyle \int }_{{{\rm{\Sigma }}}_{j}}{\lambda }^{2j}\displaystyle \prod _{k=1}^{j}\\ \quad \times q({y}_{k}){q}^{* }({x}_{k}){{\rm{e}}}^{2{\rm{i}}{\lambda }^{2}({y}_{k}-{x}_{k})}{\rm{d}}{x}_{1}{\rm{d}}{y}_{1}\cdots {\rm{d}}{x}_{j}{\rm{d}}{y}_{j},\end{array}\end{eqnarray}$ being formal linear combinations of connected integrals, where ${{\rm{\Sigma }}}_{j}$ is any domain that obeys the condition ${x}_{k}\lt {y}_{k}$ for all $k\,(k\leqslant j)$, $\lambda \in {\mathbb{C}}$ is a spectral parameter, and the star denotes the complex conjugate. | |
(2) The following estimates hold: $\begin{eqnarray}\mathrm{ln}{s}_{11}(\lambda )\sim -\displaystyle \frac{{\rm{i}}}{2}\parallel q(x){\parallel }_{{L}^{2}({\mathbb{R}})}^{2},\quad \lambda \to \infty ,\end{eqnarray}$ and $\begin{eqnarray}{s}_{11}(\lambda )\sim {{\rm{e}}}^{-\tfrac{{\rm{i}}}{2}\parallel q(x){\parallel }_{{L}^{2}({\mathbb{R}})}^{2}},\quad \lambda \to \infty .\end{eqnarray}$ |
2. Preliminaries: Jost solutions and scattering data
3. Formal expansion of the reciprocal of the transmission coefficient
[32] For any initial data ${q}_{0}(x)\in {H}^{\tfrac{1}{2}}({\mathbb{R}})$, the Cauchy problem of the DNLS equation (
The reciprocal of the transmission coefficient, ${s}_{11}(\lambda )$, has a formal expansion as follows:
We solve system (
Substituting equation (
The function $\mathrm{ln}{s}_{11}(\lambda )$ has a formal expansion as follows:
Expanding the Taylor expansion of $\mathrm{ln}{s}_{11}(\lambda )$, we have
4. Iterative integrals
Figure 1. Pairing principle for X and Y. |
$\mathrm{ln}{s}_{11}(\lambda )$ has a formal expansion as follows:
According to equation (
The expression
For the sake of simplicity, let ${\left({XY}\right)}^{(0)}=1$. Then
5. Bounding the integral term s2(λ)
(a) For $\lambda \in {{\rm{\Sigma }}}_{+}:= \{\lambda | \mathrm{Im}({\lambda }^{2})\gt 0\}$, we have
(b) For all $N\in {\mathbb{N}}$, we have
First, we prove the property (a). We have
6. Bounding the iterative integrals s2j
(a) We define the space Vp as the space of the function that the following norm is finite:
(b) A Up atom is defined as
(c) We define the space DUp as
(d) We define the space DVp as
(e) Let $\sigma \gt 0$, we define
(a) For all $1\lt p\lt \infty $, we have
(b) If $u\in {U}^{2},v\in {V}^{2}$, and v is left-continuous functions with limit 0 at the right endpoint, then
(c) The bilinear estimates
For $\mathrm{Im}{\lambda }^{2}\gt 0$, we have
It suffices to consider ${\lambda }^{2}={\rm{i}}$. Then, according to lemma
(a) We have
(b) The space ${l}_{\sigma }^{2}{U}^{2}$ can be seen as
(c) The following relationship hold:
(d) For all $p\gt 2$, we have
For $\mathrm{Im}{\lambda }^{2}\gt 0$, we have
It suffices to consider ${\lambda }^{2}={\rm{i}}$. Then, we have
The iterated integrals ${s}_{2j}(\lambda )$ and ${b}_{2j}(\lambda )$ have the following estimate:
According to theorem
Suppose that $q\in {H}^{s}$. If $-\tfrac{1}{2}\lt s\leqslant \tfrac{j-1}{2}$, then we have
For convenience, we define the following symbols:
For a single integral element, such as ${s}_{2}(\lambda )$ and ${b}_{4}(\lambda )$, we do not need to transform their independent variables to analyze their properties. However, for expression (
7. Asymptotic analysis of b4(λ) and b6(λ)
We have the following identity:
Substituting equation (
We have the following identity:
According to theorem
The following estimate holds:
Based on the properties of the Hopf algebra that we constructed earlier, we know that ${b}_{2j}(\lambda )^{\prime} s$ are formal linear combinations of connected integrals. We then obtain this lemma from the properties of connected integrals. □
8. Expansions for the iterative integrals b2j(λ)
b2j has the following estimation:
The proof is a direct consequence of theorem
Suppose that $q\in {H}^{s}$. Then, we have
First, we have
The connected integrals ${T}_{{{\rm{\Sigma }}}_{j}}(\lambda )$ have the following asymptotic expressions:
First, we have
The following estimate holds:
Let $q(x)\in {H}^{s}({\mathbb{R}})$ and $j-1+\tfrac{{k}_{1}}{2}\,\leqslant s\leqslant j-1+\tfrac{{k}_{1}+1}{2}\,(j,{k}_{1}\in {{\mathbb{Z}}}^{+})$. Define the following iterated integral:
According to corollary