Spatial decay of multi-solitons of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries and nonlinear Schrödinger equations

Abstract

We study pointwise spatial decay of multi-solitons of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations. We obtain that, uniformly in time, these solutions and their derivatives decay exponentially in space on the left of and in the solitons region, and prove rapid decay on the right of the solitons. We also prove the corresponding result for multi-solitons of the nonlinear Schrödinger equations, that is, exponential decay in the solitons region and rapid decay outside.