Semiclassical limit of the focusing NLS equation

Abstract:

We study the semiclassical limit of the focusing NLS equation near the point of gradient catastrophe of the corresponding dispersionless equations. It is argued that the NLS slution near this points is asymptotically given by the tritronquée solution of the Painlevé I equation. We present numerical evidence for this conjecture.

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