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Long-time asymptotic behavior for an extended modified Korteweg-de Vries equation. (English) Zbl 1433.35343

Summary: We investigate an integrable extended modified Korteweg-de Vries equation on the line with the initial value belonging to the Schwartz space. By performing the nonlinear steepest descent analysis of an associated matrix Riemann-Hilbert problem, we obtain the explicit leading-order asymptotics of the solution of this initial value problem as time \(t\) goes to infinity. For a special case \(\alpha=0\), we present the asymptotic formula of the solution to the extended modified Korteweg-de Vries equation in region \(\mathcal{P} = \{(x,t) \in \mathbb{R}^2 \mid 0 < x \leq Mt^{\frac{1}{5}}, \,t \geq 3 \}\) in terms of the solution of a fourth order Painlevé II equation.

MSC:

35Q53 KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations)
35G25 Initial value problems for nonlinear higher-order PDEs
35Q15 Riemann-Hilbert problems in context of PDEs
37K40 Soliton theory, asymptotic behavior of solutions of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems
35B40 Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs