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On the dispersionless limit of the Manakov system, its Riemann invariants, and the modulational stability of its counterpropagating plane waves

  • Jimmie Adriazola
  • Gino Biondini
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Abstract

We study the dispersionless limit of the Manakov system, the integrable two-component generalization of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. We derive the resulting four-component genus-zero Manakov-Whitham system, characterize its hydrodynamic structure, and show that it passes the Haantjes tensor test for integrability. We show that the branch points of the spectral curve associated with plane wave solutions of the Manakov system are the local Riemann invariants of the dispersionless system. We also use the characteristic speeds to classify the baseband modulational stability/instability of the plane waves, and we study a direct linearization of the Manakov system to characterize their finite-wavenumber stability and verify agreement with the Whitham prediction in the long-wave limit. Finally, we validate the predictions by comparing them with the results of direct numerical simulations.

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@misc{adriazola2026dispersionless,
  title = {{On the dispersionless limit of the Manakov system, its Riemann invariants, and the modulational stability of its counterpropagating plane waves}},
  author = {Jimmie Adriazola and Gino Biondini},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.26669},
  eprint = {2609.26669},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.26669},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
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TY  - UNPB
TI  - On the dispersionless limit of the Manakov system, its Riemann invariants, and the modulational stability of its counterpropagating plane waves
AU  - Jimmie Adriazola
AU  - Gino Biondini
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/22
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.26669
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.26669
AB  - We study the dispersionless limit of the Manakov system, the integrable two-component generalization of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. We derive the resulting four-component genus-zero Manakov-Whitham system, characterize its hydrodynamic structure, and show that it passes the Haantjes tensor test for integrability. We show that the branch points of the spectral curve associated with plane wave solutions of the Manakov system are the local Riemann invariants of the dispersionless system. We also use the characteristic speeds to classify the baseband modulational stability/instability of the plane waves, and we study a direct linearization of the Manakov system to characterize their finite-wavenumber stability and verify agreement with the Whitham prediction in the long-wave limit. Finally, we validate the predictions by comparing them with the results of direct numerical simulations.
ER  -