On general rogue waves in the parity-time-symmetric nonlinear Schrodinger equation

This article addresses the question of general rogue-wave solutions in the nonlocal parity-time-symmetric nonlinear Schrodinger equation. By generalizing the previous bilinear Kadomtsev-Petviashvili reduction method, large classes of rogue waves are derived as Gram determinants with Schur polynomial elements. It is shown that these rogue waves contain previously reported ones as special cases. More importantly, they contain many new rogue wave families. It is conjectured that the rogue waves derived in this article are all rogue-wave solutions in the parity-time-symmetric nonlinear Schrodinger equation.