The initial boundary value problem on the segment for the Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation; the algebro-geometric approach. I

Abstract

This is the first of a series of papers devoted to the study of classical initial-boundary value problems of Dirichlet, Neumann and mixed type for the Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the segment. Considering proper periodic discontinuous extensions of the profile, generated by suitable point-like sources, we show that the above boundary value problems can be rewritten as nonlinear dynamical systems for suitable sets of algebro-geometric spectral data, generalizing the classical Dubrovin equations. In this paper we consider, as a first illustration of the above method, the case of the Dirichlet problem on the segment with zero-boundary value at one end, and we show that the corresponding dynamical system for the spectral data can be written as a system of ODEs with algebraic right-hand side.