Painlev\'e transcendents in the defocusing mKdV equation with non-zero boundary conditions

We consider the Cauchy problem for the defocusing modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation with non-zero boundary conditions, which can be characterized using a Riemann-Hilbert (RH) problem through the inverse scattering transform. Using the $\bar\partial$ generalization of the Deift-Zhou nonlinear steepest descent approach, combined with the double scaling limit technique, we obtain the long-time asymptotics of the solution of the Cauchy problem in the transition region $|x/t+6|t^{2/3}< C$ with $C>0$. The asymptotics is expressed in terms of the solution of the second Painlev\'{e} transcendent.
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