Some Problems for Cubic Nonlinear Equations on a Half-Line

The paper deals with a problem of developing an inverse-scattering based formalism for solving problems for the cubic nonlinear (or the modified Korteweg–de Vries (KdV)) equations: q _t +q _xxx +6q ² q _x =0, 0x<, –<t<,q _t +q _xxx –6q ² q _x =0, with the given initial and boundary conditions: q(x,0)=q(x),q(0,t)=p(t), p(t)L ₁(–,). The relation between the solution of the initial-boundary value problem (1), (3), (4) and that of the KdV equation on the half-line is shown. The Cauchy problem for the cubic nonlinear equation: q _t +q _xxx –6|q|² q _x =0, 0x<, –<t<, with the given initial condition (3) is considered also. Here we solve the above problems on the half-line 0x< but with –<t<.