Soliton solutions of an integrable nonlocal modified Korteweg–de Vries equation through inverse scattering transform

Abstract

It is well known that the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation is a very important integrable equation. Ablowitz and Musslimani introduced and investigated an integrable nonlocal NLS equation through inverse scattering transform. Very recently, we proposed an integrable nonlocal modified Korteweg–de Vries equation (mKdV) which can also be found in the papers of Ablowitz and Musslimani. We have constructed the Darboux transformation and soliton solutions for the nonlocal mKdV equation. In this paper, we will investigate further the nonlocal mKdV equation. We will give its exact solutions including soliton and breather through inverse scattering transformation. These solutions have some new properties, which are different from the ones of the mKdV equation.