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Efficient computation of soliton gas primitive potentials

Published: May 4, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2505.02029v1

By: Cade Ballew, Deniz Bilman, Thomas Trogdon

Potential Business Impact:

Solves math problems for waves in fluids.

Business Areas:
Quantum Computing Science and Engineering

We consider the problem of computing a class of soliton gas primitive potentials for the Korteweg--de Vries equation that arise from the accumulation of solitons on an infinite interval in the physical domain, extending to $-\infty$. This accumulation results in an associated Riemann--Hilbert problem on a number of disjoint intervals. In the case where the jump matrices have specific square-root behavior, we describe an efficient and accurate numerical method to solve this Riemann--Hilbert problem and extract the potential. The keys to the method are, first, the deformation of the Riemann--Hilbert problem, making numerical use of the so-called $g$-function, and, second, the incorporation of endpoint singularities into the chosen basis to discretize and solve the associated singular integral equation.

Page Count
23 pages

Category
Nonlinear Sciences:
Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems