Uniform and optimal error estimates of a nested Picard integrator for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with wave operator

Abstract

We propose a second‐order nested Picard iterative integrator sine pseudospectral (NPI‐SP) method for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with wave operator (NLSW) involving a parameter and carry out rigorous error estimates. Actually, the equation propagates wave with wavelength in time, while the amplitude of the leading oscillation is for well‐prepared initial data, and for ill‐prepared initial data, respectively. Based on the exponential integrator and nested Picard iteration, the uniformly accurate (w.r.t. ) NPI‐SP scheme is proposed with the optimal uniform error bounds at in time and spectral accuracy in space for both well‐prepared and ill‐prepared data in ‐norm. This result significantly improves the error bounds of the finite difference methods and exponential wave integrator for the NLSW. Error estimates are rigorously carried out and numerical examples are provided to confirm the theoretical analysis.