Riemann–Hilbert approach and N-soliton solutions for the Chen–Lee–Liu equation

Abstract

In this paper, we construct the Riemann–Hilbert problem to the Lax pair of Chen–Lee–Liu (CLL) equation. As far as we know, many researchers have studied various equations with Riemann–Hilbert method before, but no one compared the N-soliton solutions calculated by different symmetries of potential matrix. Using different symmetries of potential matrix, we get two N-soliton solution formulae of the CLL equation. The interesting thing is that we find the equivalence of these two N-soliton solutions.