The Ablowitz-Ladik system on a graph

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to study initial-boundary value (IBV) problems for integrable nonlinear differential-difference equations (DDEs) posed on a graph. As an illustrative example, we consider the Ablowitz-Ladik system posed on a graph that is constituted by $N$ semi-infinite lattices (edges) connected through some boundary conditions. We first show analyzing this problem is equivalent to analyzing a certain matrix IBV problem; then we employ the unified transform method (UTM) to analyze this matrix IBV problem. We also compare our results with some previously known studies. In particular, we show that the inverse scattering method (ISM) for the integrable DDEs on the integers can be recovered from the UTM applied to our $N=2$ graph problem as a particular case, and the nonlocal reductions of integrable DDEs can be obtained as local reductions from our results.

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