Abstract: | In this paper we consider the Gross-Pitaevskii equation iu
t
= Δu + u(1 − |u|2), where u is a complex-valued function defined on
\Bbb RN×\Bbb R{\Bbb R}^N\times{\Bbb R}
, N ≥ 2, and in particular the travelling waves, i.e., the solutions of the form u(x, t) = ν(x
1 − ct, x
2, …, x
N
), where
c ? \Bbb Rc\in{\Bbb R}
is the speed. We prove for c fixed the existence of a lower bound on the energy of any non-constant travelling wave. This bound provides a non-existence
result for non-constant travelling waves of fixed speed having small energy. |