The Sasa–Satsuma equation with high-order discrete spectra in space-time solitonic regions: soliton resolution via the mixed ∂ ¯ -Riemann–Hilbert problem

Abstract

Abstract In this paper, we investigate the Cauchy problem of the Sasa–Satsuma (SS) equation with initial data belonging to the Schwartz space. The SS equation is one of the integrable higher-order extensions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation and admits a 3 × 3 Lax representation. With the aid of the ∂ ¯ -nonlinear steepest descent method of the mixed ∂ ¯ -Riemann–Hilbert problem, we give the soliton resolution and long-time asymptotics for the Cauchy problem of the SS equation with the existence of second-order discrete spectra in the space-time solitonic regions.