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Long-time asymptotics of the integrable defocusing Wadati-Konno-Ichikawa equation with a finite-genus algebro-geometric background

Taohua Luo·Zhenya Yan·Guoqiang Zhang
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We study the finite-genus algebro-geometric solutions of the Wadati-Konno-Ichikawa (WKI) equation with the saturable nonlinearity and long-time asymptotic behaviors of their short-range perturbations. First, for both the focusing and defocusing reductions, we formulate the finite-genus Baker-Akhiezer functions as explicitly solvable the matrix Riemann-Hilbert (RH) problems on the complex spectral plane and obtain theta-function representations together with the reconstruction formulae for the WKI field and the reciprocal coordinate. We then consider the Cauchy problem of the defocusing WKI equation on a finite-genus algebro-geometric background. We construct the scattering data and RH problem, and perform a Deift-Zhou nonlinear steepest descent analysis. The space-time plane is divided into two transition regions, a Zakharov-Manakov (ZM) region, and a fast-decay region. The leading term is a phase-shifted finite-genus WKI solution. The transition corrections are governed by a Painlevé-XXXIV model, while the ZM radiation is described by parabolic-cylinder functions. The reciprocal-coordinate asymptotics are obtained simultaneously.

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Taohua Luo, Zhenya Yan, Guoqiang Zhang. 2026-08-19. Long-time asymptotics of the integrable defocusing Wadati-Konno-Ichikawa equation with a finite-genus algebro-geometric background. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18630

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