Back to Search Start Over

The behavior of the weyl function in the zero-dispersion KdV limit

Authors :
Taiyan Zhang
C. David Levermore
Nicholas M. Ercolani
Source :
Comm. Math. Phys. 183, no. 1 (1997), 119-143
Publication Year :
1997
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1997.

Abstract

The moment formulas that globally characterize the zero-dispersion limit of the Korteweg-deVries (KdV) equation are known to be expressed in terms of the solution of a maximization problem. Here we establish a direct relation between this maximizer and the zero-dispersion limit of the logarithm of the Jost functions associated with the inverse spectral transform. All the KdV conserved densities are encoded in the spatial derivative of these functions, known as Weyl functions. We show the Weyl functions are densities of measures that converge in the weak sense to a limiting measure. This limiting measure encodes all of the weak limits of the KdV conserved densities. Moreover, we establish the weak limit of spectral measures associated with the Dirichlet problem.

Details

ISSN :
14320916 and 00103616
Volume :
183
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Communications in Mathematical Physics
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....95ab88e44355abb23e9b1e1d2ff775f3