Long-time asymptotics for the complex nonlinear transverse oscillation equation

Abstract

In this paper, we study the long-time asymptotic behavior of the Cauchy problem for the complex nonlinear transverse oscillation equation. Based on the corresponding Lax pair, the original Riemann–Hilbert problem is constructed by introducing some spectral function transformations and variable transformations, and the solution of the complex nonlinear transverse oscillation equation is transformed into the solution of the resulted Riemann–Hilbert problem. Various Deift–Zhou contour deformations and the motivation behind them are given, from which the original Riemann–Hilbert problem is further transformed into a solvable model problem. The long-time asymptotic behavior of the Cauchy problem for the complex nonlinear transverse oscillation equation is obtained by using the nonlinear steepest decent method.