The finite-gap method and the periodic Cauchy problem for (2+1)-dimensional anomalous waves for the focusing Davey-Stewartson 2 equation

The focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation is the simplest universal model describing the modulation instability (MI) of $1+1$ dimensional quasi monochromatic waves in weakly nonlinear media, and MI is considered the main physical mechanism for the appearence of anomalous (rogue) waves (AWs) in nature. In analogy with the recently developed analytic theory of periodic AWs of the focusing NLS equation, in this paper we extend these results to a $2+1$ dimensional context, concentrating on the focusing Davey-Stewartson 2 (DS2) equation, an integrable $2+1$ dimensional generalization of the focusing NLS equation. More precisely, we use the finite gap theory to solve, to leading order, the doubly periodic Cauchy problem of the focusing DS2 equation for small initial perturbations of the unstable background solution, what we call the periodic Cauchy problem of the AWs. As in the NLS case, we show that, to leading order, the solution of this Cauchy problem is expressed in terms of elementary functions of the initial data.