Analysis and comparative study of non-holonomic and quasi-integrable deformations of the Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation

TL;DR

This paper compares non-holonomic and quasi-integrable deformations of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, revealing conditions for their local coincidence, their gauge inequivalence, and their asymptotic convergence for localized solutions.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of the relationship between non-holonomic and quasi-integrable deformations, including conditions for their equivalence and differences.

Findings

Deformations coincide when the solution phase is discontinuous in space.

The two deformations are generally not gauge-equivalent.

They converge asymptotically for localized solutions.

Abstract

The non-holonomic deformation of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, uniquely obtained from both the Lax pair and Kupershmidt's bi-Hamiltonian [Phys. Lett. A 372, 2634 (2008)] approaches, is compared with the quasi-integrable deformation of the same system [Ferreira et. al. JHEP 2012, 103 (2012)]. It is found that these two deformations can locally coincide only when the phase of the corresponding solution is discontinuous in space, following a definite phase-modulus coupling of the non-holonomic inhomogeneity function. These two deformations are further found to be not gauge-equivalent in general, following the Lax formalism of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. However, asymptotically they converge for localized solutions as expected. Similar conditional correspondence of nonholonomic deformation with a non-integrable deformation, namely, due to local scaling of the amplitude of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is further obtained.