Approximate Peregrine Solitons in Dispersive Nonlinear Wave Equations

Abstract: The purpose of this short note is to explain how the existing results on the validity of the NLS approximation can be extended from Sobolev spaces $H^s(\mathbb{R})$ to the spaces of functions $u = v + w$ where $v \in H_{{per}}^s$ and $w \in H^s(\mathbb{R})$. This allows us to use the Peregrine solution of the NLS equation to find freak or rogue wave dynamics in more complicated systems.