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In this paper, we prove the existence of global solutions in $H^3(\mathbb{R})\cap H^{2,1}(\mathbb{R})$ to the Fokas-Lenells (FL) equation on the line when the initial data includes solitons.A key tool in proving this result is a newly modified Darboux transformation, which adds or subtracts a soliton with given spectral and scattering parameters. In this way the inverse scattering transform technique is then applied to establish the global well-posedness of initial value problem with a finite number of solitons based on our previous results on the global well-posedness of the FL equation., Comment: 30 pages

We obtain the the existence of global solutions to the Cauchy problem of the Fokas-Lenells (FL) equation on the line \begin{align} &u_{xt}+\alpha\beta^2u-2i\alpha\beta u_x-\alpha u_{xx}-i\alpha\beta^2|u|^2u_x=0,\nonumber \\ &u(x,t=0)=u_0(x), \nonumber \end{align} where without the small-norm assumption on initial data $u_0(x)\in H^3(\mathbb{R})\cap H^{2,1}(\mathbb{R})$. Our main technical tool is the inverse scattering transform method based on the representation of a Riemann-Hilbert (RH) problem associated with the above Cauchy problem. The existence and the uniqueness of the RH problem is shown via a general vanishing lemma. The spectral problem associated with the FL equation is changed into an equivalent Zakharov-Shabat-type spectral problem to establish the RH problems on the real axis. By representing the solutions of the RH problem via the Cauchy integral protection and the reflection coefficients, the reconstruction formula is used to obtain a unique local solution of the FL equation. Further, the eigenfunctions and the reflection coefficients are shown Lipschitz continuous with respect to initial data, which provides a priori estimate of the solution to the FL equation. Based on the local solution and the uniformly priori estimate, we construct a unique global solution in $H^3(\mathbb{R})\cap H^{2,1}(\mathbb{R})$ to the FL equation., Comment: 67 pages