
10.4 Multiple-scale analysis of DM 295
with K(ζ,z) = e
iC(ζ)z
. When g(ζ) = 1 (i.e., a lossless system), it is
found that
r
1
(x, y) =
i(2θ − 1)
2s
3
(xy)
2
(x + y)
sxy(y cos sx sin sy − x cos sy sin sx)
+ (x
2
− y
2
)sinsx sin sy
.
Note that when g = 1, r
1
depends on s and θ separately, whereas when g = 1
the kernel r in the DMNLS equation only depends on s (recall: r(x) =
sx
(2π)
2
sx
).
The higher-order DMNLS (HO-DMNLS) equation (10.40) with the terms,
ˆn
0
(ω, Z), ˆn
0
(ω, Z), derived in this section has a class of interesting solu-
tions. With the HO-DMNLS, a wide variety of solutions including multi-hump
soliton solutions can be obtained. Interestingly, single-humped, two-humped,
three-humped, four-humped, etc., solutions are found. They also come with
phases, for example, bi-solitons with positive and negative humps, as schemat-
ically illustrated in Figure 10.11. It has been conjectured that there exists an
infinite family of such DMNLS solitons (Ablowitz et al., 2002b); see also
Maruta et al. (2002).
one
Figure 10.11 The HO-DMNLS equation has different families of soliton
solutions, including the single soliton, also found in the DMNLS equation,
and new multi-soliton solutions. Amplitude is plotted; + denotes a positive
hump, whereas − denotes a negatives hump.