Partial classification of the large-time behavior of solutions to cubic nonlinear Schrödinger systems
Satoshi Masaki
TL;DR
This work analyzes the large-time behavior of small solutions to a two-component, one-dimensional cubic NLS system with a coercive mass-like conserved quantity. By translating the PDE dynamics into a quadratic ODE framework for the quantities (ρ,𝒟,𝓡,𝓘) on the sphere S^2_ρ, the authors construct an explicit integration scheme and obtain highly detailed asymptotics. They classify 15 parameter regimes, revealing phenomena including nonlinear synchronization and Jacobi-elliptic dynamics, with several cases yielding closed-form or elliptic-function representations of the asymptotic profiles. The results advance explicit long-time descriptions of multi-component NLS systems, offering precise asymptotics, phase corrections, and a toolkit that includes gauge reductions and a quadratic-quantity reconstruction method applicable to Manakov-type models and beyond.
Abstract
In this paper, we study the large-time behavior of small solutions to the standard form of the systems of 1D cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equations consisting of two components and possessing a coercive mass-like conserved quantity. The cubic nonlinearity is known to be critical in one space dimension in view of the large-time behavior. By employing the result by Katayama and Sakoda, one can obtain the large-time behavior of the solution if we can integrate the corresponding ODE system. We introduce an integration scheme suited to the system. The key idea is to rewrite the ODE system, which is cubic, as a quadratic system of quadratic quantities of the original unknown. By using this technique, we described the large-time behavior of solutions in terms of elementary functions and the Jacobi elliptic functions for several examples of standard systems.
