The Focusing NLS Equation with Step-Like Oscillating Background: The Genus 3 Sector

We consider the Cauchy problem for the focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation with initial data approaching different plane waves $A_j\mathrm{e}^{\mathrm{i}\phi_j}\mathrm{e}^{-2\mathrm{i}B_jx}$, $j=1,2$ as $x\to\pm\infty$. The goal is to determine the long-time asymptotics of the solution, according to the value of $\xi=x/t$. The general situation is analyzed in [7] where we develop the Riemann-Hilbert approach and detect different scenarios of asymptotic analysis, depending on the relationships between the parameters $A_1$, $A_2$, $B_1$, and $B_2$. In particular, in the shock case $B_1<B_2$, some scenarios include genus $3$ sectors, i.e., ranges of values of $\xi$ where the leading term of the asymptotics is given in terms of hyperelliptic functions attached to a Riemann surface $M(\xi)$ of genus three. The present paper is devoted to the complete asymptotic analysis in such a sector.

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