Long-time asymptotics for the defocusing integrable discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Abstract

We investigate the long-time asymptotics for the defocusing integrable discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation of Ablowitz-Ladik by means of the inverse scattering transform and the Deift-Zhou nonlinear steepest descent method. The leading part is a sum of two terms that oscillate with decay of order t^−1/2.