General rogue wave solutions to the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation

Abstract

In the present paper, we attempt to construct both the general rogue wave solutions to the fully discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger (fd-NLS) equation via the KP-Toda reduction method. First, we deduce the general breather solution of the fd-NLS equation starting from a pair of bilinear equations. We then derive the general rogue wave solution by taking a limit to the breather solution.