Modified Korteweg-De Vries equation ($v_t-6v^2{v}_x+v_{xxx}=0$)

This nonlinear dispersive equation replaces the quadratic KdV nonlinearity by a cubic one. In the displayed sign convention, the Miura transformation maps its solutions to $u_t-6u{u}_x+u_{xxx}=0$. Its scaling symmetry is $(x,t,v)\mapsto (e^{s}x,e^{3s}t,e^{-s}v)$.

For the three corner-normalized Lax pair eigenfunctions, let $s={\mu }_3(0,0,k)$ and $S=e^{4i{k}^{3}T{\hat{\sigma }}_3}{\mu }_2(0,T,k{)}^{-1}$. Their constant connection matrices give the displayed global relation. If their second columns are $(b,a{)}^T$ and $(B,A{)}^T$, its upper-right entry is $Ab-Ba=e^{8i{k}^{3}T}{\mu }_{3,12}(0,T,k)$. The right side is analytic in the lower half-plane. In the linear limit this is the backward-sign Airy half-line global relation at Fourier parameter $2k$, coupling all three boundary traces rather than allowing three independent boundary conditions.

Direct differentiation givesConsequently this transformation takes solutions of the modified Korteweg-De Vries equation to solutions of the Korteweg-De Vries equation in these sign conventions. Both summands in $u$ have the same scaling weight, so the modified-equation scaling induces $(x,t,u)\mapsto (e^{s}x,e^{3s}t,e^{-2s}u)$.