Solution

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Eliminate between the two connection relations and evaluate at , where . This yields the matrix global relation
Its upper off-diagonal entry is especially useful. Since , it is
The function is analytic in the upper half-plane and is there by the spatial Volterra integral equation. This is the half-line NLS global relation. It expresses compatibility between initial and boundary scattering and the final state. At finite the right-hand side is generally nonzero; setting it to zero would silently impose an extra assumption.

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