WKB accuracy conjecture for the direct spectral transform

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Suppose that AA and S−S∞S-S_\infty are Schwartz-class functions for some constant S∞∈RS_\infty\in\mathbb{R}, and that k∈C∖{0}k\in\mathbb{C}\setminus\{0\} admits a global classical solution f(x,y;k)f(x,y;k) of the eikonal problem. Let ψϵ(z;k)\boldsymbol{\psi}^\epsilon(z;k) be the solution of the direct scattering problem at t=0t=0. WKB accuracy conjecture. As ϵ↓0\epsilon\downarrow 0, one has

e−f(x,y;k)/ϵe−iS(x,y)σ3/(2ϵ)ψϵ(x+iy;k)=α0(x,y;k)2k[2∂f(x,y;k)−i∂S(x,y)A(x,y)]+o(1),\mathrm{e}^{-f(x,y;k)/\epsilon}\mathrm{e}^{-\mathrm{i} S(x,y)\sigma_3/(2\epsilon)}\boldsymbol{\psi}^\epsilon(x+\mathrm{i} y;k)=\frac{\alpha_0(x,y;k)}{2k}\begin{bmatrix}2\partial f(x,y;k)-\mathrm{i} \partial S(x,y)\\ A(x,y)\end{bmatrix}+o(1),

with convergence in a suitable norm, and the o(1)o(1) term can be uniquely continued to a full asymptotic power series in positive integer powers of ϵ\epsilon. The conjecture concerns the accuracy of the leading WKB approximation in the regime where the eikonal problem has a global classical solution; numerical evidence supports it, but a proof of the stated accuracy and full expansion is not supplied here.

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O. Assainova, C. Klein, K. McLaughlin and P. Miller, “A Study of the Direct Spectral Transform for the Defocusing Davey-Stewartson II Equation in the Semiclassical Limit”, arXiv:1710.03429 (2017).

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