We present a simple approach for finding N -soliton solution and the corresponding Jost solutions of the derivative nonlinear Scrödinger equation with nonvanishing boundary conditions. Soliton perturbation theory based on the inverse scattering transform method is developed. As an application of the present theory we consider the action of the diffusive-type perturbation on a single bright/dark...

In analogy to a perturbed harmonic oscillator, we calculate the fundamental and some other higher order soliton solutions of the nonlocal nonlinear Schödinger equation (NNLSE) in the second approximation in the generally nonlocal case. Comparing with numerical simulations we show that soliton solutions in the second approximation can describe the generally nonlocal soliton states of the NNLSE m...

This paper investigates the nature of particle collisions for three-soliton solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation by describing mathematically the interaction of soliton particles and generation of ghost particle radiation. In particular, it is proven that a collision between any two soliton particles results in an exchange of particle identities and an emission of a ghost particle ...

We announce a detailed investigation of limits of N-soliton solutions of the Korteweg-deVries (KdV) equation as N tends to infinity. Our main results provide new classes of KdV-solutions including in particular new types of soliton-like (reflectionless) solutions. As a byproduct we solve an inverse spectral problem for one-dimensional Schrödinger operators and explicitly construct smooth and re...

We present a simple formula for all the conserved charges of soliton theories, evaluated on the solutions belonging to the orbit of the vacuum under the group of dressing transformations. For pedagogical reasons we perform the explicit calculations for the case of the sine-Gordon model, taken as a prototype of soliton theories. We show that the energy and momentum are boundary terms for all the...

It is by now well known that the wave functions of rational solutions to the KP hierarchy which can be achieved as limits of the pure n-soliton solutions satisfy an eigenvalue equation for ordinary differential operators in the spectral parameter. This property is known as “bispectrality” and has proved to be both interesting and useful. In this note, it is shown that all pure soliton solutions...

These notes are based on lectures given by C. Callan and J. Harvey at the 1991 Trieste Spring School on String Theory and Quantum Gravity. The subject is the construction of supersymmetric soliton solutions to superstring theory. A brief review of solitons and instantons in supersymmetric theories is presented. Yang-Mills instantons are then used to construct soliton solutions to heterotic stri...

We study the domain wall soliton solutions in the relativistic self-dual Maxwell Chern-Simons model in 1+1 dimensions obtained by the dimensional reduction of the 2 + 1 model. Both topological and nontopological self-dual solutions are found in this case. A la BPS dyons here the Bogomol’ny bound on the energy is expressed in terms of two conserved quantities. We discuss the underlying supersymm...