Long time asymptotics for the defocusing mKdV equation with finite density initial data in different solitonic regions


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We investigate the long time asymptotics for the Cauchy problem of the defocusing modified Kortweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation with finite density initial data in different solitonic regions begin{align*} &q_t(x,t)-6q^2(x,t)q_{x}(x,t)+q_{xxx}(x,t)=0, quad (x,t)inmathbb{R}times mathbb{R}^{+}, &q(x,0)=q_{0}(x), quad lim_{xrightarrowpminfty}q_{0}(x)=pm 1, end{align*} where $q_0mp 1in H^{4,4}(mathbb{R})$.Based on the spectral analysis of the Lax pair, we express the solution of the mKdV equation in terms of a Riemann-Hilbert problem. In our previous article, we have obtained long time asymptotics and soliton resolutions for the mKdV equation in the solitonic region $xiin(-6,-2)$ with $xi=frac{x}{t}$.In this paper, we calculate the asymptotic expansion of the solution $q(x,t)$ for the solitonic region $xiin(-varpi,-6)cup(-2,varpi)$ with $ 6 < varpi<infty$ being an arbitrary constant.For $-varpi<xi<-6$, there exist four stationary phase points on jump contour, and the asymptotic approximations can be characterized with an $N$-soliton on discrete spectrums and a leading order term $mathcal{O}(t^{-1/2})$ on continuous spectrum up to a residual error order $mathcal{O}(t^{-3/4})$. For $-2<xi<varpi$, the leading term of asymptotic expansion is described by the soliton solution and the error order $mathcal{O}(t^{-1})$ comes from a $bar{partial}$-problem. Additionally, asymptotic stability can be obtained.

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