Wave Operators for Defocusing Matrix Zakharov-Shabat Systems with Pnonvanishing at Infinity

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 34L25; secondary: 47A40, 81Q10.

In this article we prove that the wave operators describing the direct scattering of the defocusing matrix Zakharov-Shabat system with potentials having distinct nonzero values with the same modulus at ± ∞ exist, are asymptotically complete, and lead to a unitary scattering operator. We also prove that the free Hamiltonian operator is absolutely continuous.