Soliton solutions to the Sawada--Kotera equation

Abstract

We consider the direct and inverse scattering problems for the third-order differential equation in the reflectionless case. We formulate a corresponding Riemann--Hilbert problem using input consisting of the bound-state poles of a transmission coefficient and the bound-state dependency constants. With the time-evolved dependency constants, using the solution to the Riemann--Hilbert problem, we construct soliton solutions to an integrable system of fifth-order nonlinear partial differential equations. By imposing some appropriate restrictions on the dependency constants, we show that those soliton solutions yield soliton solutions to the Sawada--Kotera equation.