Breathers for the sixth-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation on the plane wave and periodic wave background

Abstract

In this paper, we study the breathers in the framework of the sixth-order nonlinear Schrödinger equation by using the Darboux transformation. The primary objective of this research is twofold. First, we consider the nonlinear superposition of breathers on the plane wave background. Based on the concept that rogue waves are formed from colliding Akhmediev breathers, we obtain rogue wave sequences and a first-order Akhmediev breather with a central second-order rogue wave peak. Second, we consider the formation of breathers on the periodic wave background. The difficulty of solving the Lax pair is overcome, and we successfully construct the breathers on the cn- and dn-periodic wave background.