Spectral decomposition for the Dirac system associated to the DSII equation

A new (scalar) spectral decomposition is found for the Dirac system in two dimensions associated to the focusing Davey-Stewartson II (DSII) equation. The discrete spectrum in the spectral problem corresponds to eigenvalues embedded into a two-dimensional essential spectrum. We show that these embedded eigenvalues are structurally unstable under small variations of the initial data. This instability leads to the decay of localized initial data …