The Robin problem for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the half-line

TL;DR

This paper studies the nonlinear Schr"odinger equation on a half-line with Robin boundary conditions, proving global existence, deriving long-time asymptotics, and demonstrating the asymptotic stability of stationary solitons using a Riemann--Hilbert problem approach.

Contribution

It introduces an alternative method to analyze the long-time behavior and stability of solutions to the nonlinear Schr"odinger equation with Robin boundary conditions.

Findings

Existence of a global weak solution.

Asymptotic formulas for long-time behavior.

Asymptotic stability of stationary one-solitons.

Abstract

We consider the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation on the half-line $x \geq 0$ with a Robin boundary condition at $x = 0$ and with initial data in the weighted Sobolev space $H^{1,1}(\mathbb{R}_+)$. We prove that there exists a global weak solution of this initial-boundary value problem and provide a representation for the solution in terms of the solution of a Riemann--Hilbert problem. Using this representation, we obtain asymptotic formulas for the long-time behavior of the solution. In particular, by restricting our asymptotic result to solutions whose initial data are close to the initial profile of the stationary one-soliton, we obtain results on the asymptotic stability of the stationary one-solitons under any small perturbation in $H^{1,1}(\mathbb{R}_+)$. In the focusing case, such a result was already established by Deift and Park using different methods, and our work provides an alternative approach to obtain such results.