Global Existence for the Derivative Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation by the Method of Inverse Scattering

Abstract

We develop inverse scattering for the derivative nonlinear Schrodinger equation (DNLS) on the line using its gauge equivalence with a related nonlinear dispersive equation. We prove Lipschitz continuity of the direct and inverse scattering maps from the weighted Sobolev spaces $H^{2,2}(\mathbb{R})$ to itself. These results immediately imply global existence of solutions to the DNLS for initial data in a spectrally determined (open) subset of $H^{2,2}(\mathbb{R})$ containing a neighborhood of 0.