On soliton resolution to Cauchy problem of the spin-1 Gross-Pitaevskii equation

Abstract: We investigate the Cauchy problem for the spin-1 Gross-Pitaevskii(GP) equation, which is a model instrumental in characterizing the soliton dynamics within spinor Bose-Einstein condensates. Recently, Geng $etal.$ (Commun. Math. Phys. 382, 585-611 (2021)) reported the long-time asymptotic result with error $\mathcal{O}(\frac{\log t}t)$ for the spin-1 GP equation that only exists in the continuous spectrum. The main purpose of our work is to further generalize and improve Geng's work. Compared with the previous work, our asymptotic error accuracy has been improved from $\mathcal{O}(\frac{\log t}t)$ to $\mathcal{O}(t^{-3/4})$. More importantly, by establishing two matrix valued functions, we obtained effective asymptotic errors and successfully constructed asymptotic analysis of the spin-1 GP equation based on the characteristics of the spectral problem, including two cases: (i)coexistence of discrete and continuous spectrum; (ii)only continuous spectrum which considered by Geng's work with error $\mathcal{O}(\frac{\log t}t)$. For the case (i), the corresponding asymptotic approximations can be characterized with an $N$-soliton as well as an interaction term between soliton solutions and the dispersion term with diverse residual error order $\mathcal{O}(t^{-3/4})$. For the case (ii), the corresponding asymptotic approximations can be characterized with the leading term on the continuous spectrum and the residual error order $\mathcal{O}(t^{-3/4})$. Finally, our results confirm the soliton resolution conjecture for the spin-1 GP equation.