Biharmonic nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the profile decomposition

This paper is concerned with the Cauchy problem for the biharmonic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with L²-super-critical nonlinearity. By establishing the profile decomposition of bounded sequences in H²(R^N), the best constant of a Gagliardo-Nirenberg inequality is obtained. Moreover, a sufficient condition for the global existence of the solution to the biharmonic nonlinear Schrödinger equation is given.     

Blow-up solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with oscillating nonlinearities

In this article we investigate the possibility of finite time blow-up in H¹(R²) for solutions to critical and supercritical nonlinear Schrödinger equations with an oscillating nonlinearity. We prove that despite the oscillations some solutions blow up in finite time. Conversely, we observe that for a given initial data oscillations can extend the local existence time of the corresponding solution.     

Bound states of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with potentials tending to zero at infinity

In this paper, we are concerned with the existence of solutions to the N-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation −ε²Δu+V(x)u=K(x)up with u(x)>0, u∈H¹(RN), N?3 and . When the potential V(x) decays at infinity faster than ⁻²(1+|x|) and K(x)?0 is permitted to be unbounded, we will show that the positive H¹(RN)-solutions exist if it is assumed that G(x) has local minimum points for small ε>0, here with denotes the ground energy function which is introduced in [X. Wang, B. Zeng, On concentration of positive bound states of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with competing potential functions, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 28 (1997) 633-655]. In addition, when the potential V(x) decays to zero at most like (1+|x|)^−α with 0<α?2, we also discuss the existence of positive H¹(RN)-solutions for unbounded K(x). Compared with some previous papers [A. Ambrosetti, A. Malchiodi, D. Ruiz, Bound states of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with potentials vanishing at infinity, J. Anal. Math. 98 (2006) 317-348; A. Ambrosetti, D. Ruiz, Radial solutions concentrating on spheres of NLS with vanishing potentials, Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A 136 (2006) 889-907; A. Ambrosetti, Z.Q. Wang, Nonlinear Schrödinger equations with vanishing and decaying potentials, Differential Integral Equations 18 (2005) 1321-1332] and so on, we remove the restrictions on the potential function V(x) which decays at infinity like (1+|x|)^−α with 0<α?2 as well as the restrictions on the boundedness of K(x)>0. Therefore, we partly answer a question posed in the reference [A. Ambrosetti, A. Malchiodi, Concentration phenomena for NLS: Recent results and new perspectives, preprint, 2006].     

Well-posedness for the nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation

We establish local well-posedness for small initial data in the usual Sobolev spaces Hs(R), s?1, and global well-posedness in H¹(R), for the Cauchy problem associated to the nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation

     

Global existence for some radial, low regularity nonlinear Schrödinger equations

We prove the nonlinear Schrödinger equation has a local solution for any energy - subcritical nonlinearity when u₀ is the characteristic function of a ball in Rn. Additionally, we establish the existence of a global solution for n?3 when and α?2. Finally, we establish the existence of a global solution when the initial function is radial, the nonlinear Schrödinger equation has an energy subcritical nonlinearity, and the initial function lies in Hρ+?(Rn)∩H1/2+?(Rn)∩H1/2+?,1(Rn).     

Anderson localization and Lifshits tails for random surface potentials

We consider Schrödinger operators on L²(R^d) with a random potential concentrated near the surface R^d₁×{0}⊂R^d. We prove that the integrated density of states of such operators exhibits Lifshits tails near the bottom of the spectrum. From this and the multiscale analysis by Boutet de Monvel and Stollmann [Arch. Math. 80 (2003) 87-97] we infer Anderson localization (pure point spectrum and dynamical localization) for low energies. Our proof of Lifshits tails relies on spectral properties of Schrödinger operators with partially periodic potentials. In particular, we show that the lowest energy band of such operators is parabolic.     

The Cauchy problem for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in H1

We consider the initial value problem for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in H¹(Rⁿ). We establish local existence and uniqueness for a wide class of subcritical nonlinearities. The proofs make use of a truncation argument, space-time integrability properties of the linear equation, anda priori estimates derived from the conservation of energy. In particular, we do not need any differentiability property of the nonlinearity with respect to x.Research supported by NSF grants DMS 8201639 and DMS 8703096.     

Inviscid limit for the energy-critical complex Ginzburg-Landau equation

In this paper, we consider the limit behavior for the solution of the Cauchy problem of the energy-critical complex Ginzburg-Landau equation in Rn, n?3. In lower dimension case (3?n?6), we show that its solution converges to that of the energy-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation in , T>0, s=0,1, as a by-product, we get the regularity of solutions in H³ for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. In higher dimension case (n>6), we get the similar convergent behavior in C(0,T,L²(Rn)). In both cases we obtain the optimal convergent rate.     

A splitting method for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

We introduce a splitting method for the semilinear Schrödinger equation and prove its convergence for those nonlinearities which can be handled by the classical well-posedness L²(Rd)-theory. More precisely, we prove that the scheme is of first order in the L²(Rd)-norm for H²(Rd)-initial data.     

Wave front set for solutions to Schrödinger equations

We consider solutions to Schrödinger equation on Rd with variable coefficients. Let H be the Schrödinger operator and let u(t)=e−itHu₀ be the solution to the Schrödinger equation with the initial condition u₀∈L²(Rd). We show that the wave front set of u(t) in the nontrapping region can be characterized by the wave front set of e−itH₀u₀, where H₀ is the free Schrödinger operator. The characterization of the wave front set is given by the wave operator for the corresponding classical mechanical scattering (or equivalently, by the asymptotics of the geodesic flow).     

On the well-posedness of the Schrödinger-Korteweg-de Vries system

We prove that the Cauchy problem for the Schrödinger-Korteweg-de Vries system is locally well-posed for the initial data belonging to the Sobolev spaces L²(R)×H−3/4(R), and Hs(R)×H−3/4(R) (s>−1/16) for the resonant case. The new ingredient is that we use the -type space, introduced by the first author in Guo (2009) [10], to deal with the KdV part of the system and the coupling terms. In order to overcome the difficulty caused by the lack of scaling invariance, we prove uniform estimates for the multiplier. This result improves the previous one by Corcho and Linares (2007) [6].     

Asymptotics of odd solutions for cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equations

We consider the Cauchy problem for a cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the case of an odd initial data from H²∩H0,2. We prove the global existence in time of solutions to the Cauchy problem and construct the modified asymptotics for large values of time.     

Asymptotics of odd solutions of quadratic nonlinear Schrödinger equations

We consider the Cauchy problem for a quadratic nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the case of odd initial data from H²∩H0,2. We prove the global existence in time of solutions to the Cauchy problem and construct the modified asymptotics for large values of time.     

The focusing energy-critical Hartree equation

We consider the focusing energy-critical nonlinear Hartree equation iut+Δu=−(⁻⁴|x|∗²|u|)u. We proved that if a maximal-lifespan solution u:I×Rd→C satisfies supt∈I‖∇u(t)_‖2<‖∇W_‖2, where W is the static solution of the equation, then the maximal-lifespan I=R, moreover, the solution scatters in both time directions. For spherically symmetric initial data, similar result has been obtained in [C. Miao, G. Xu, L. Zhao, Global wellposedness, scattering and blowup for the energy-critical, focusing Hartree equation in the radial case, Colloq. Math., in press]. The argument is an adaptation of the recent work of R. Killip and M. Visan [R. Killip, M. Visan, The focusing energy-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation in dimensions five and higher, preprint] on energy-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equations.     

Concentration and compactness in nonlinear Schrödinger-Poisson system with a general nonlinearity

In this paper we use a concentration and compactness argument to prove the existence of a nontrivial non-radial solution to the nonlinear Schrödinger-Poisson equations in R³, assuming on the nonlinearity the general hypotheses introduced by Berestycki and Lions.     

Multilinear eigenfunction estimates and global existence for the three dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equations

We study nonlinear Schrödinger equations, posed on a three dimensional Riemannian manifold M. We prove global existence of strong H¹ solutions on M=S³ and M=S²×S¹ as far as the nonlinearity is defocusing and sub-quintic and thus we extend results of Ginibre, Velo and Bourgain who treated the cases of the Euclidean space R³ and the torus T³=R³/Z³ respectively. The main ingredient in our argument is a new set of multilinear estimates for spherical harmonics.     

Global existence for 2D nonlinear Schrödinger equations via high-low frequency decomposition method

We study global existence of solutions for the Cauchy problem of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation iut+Δu=|u|^2mu in the 2 dimension case, where m is a positive integer, m?2. Using the high-low frequency decomposition method, we prove that if then for any initial value φ∈Hs(R²), the Cauchy problem has a global solution in C(R,Hs(R²)), and it can be split into u(t)=eitΔφ+y(t), with y∈C(R,H¹(R²)) satisfying , where ? is an arbitrary sufficiently small positive number.     

Kato-type estimates for NLS equation in a scalar field and unique solvability of NKGS system in energy space

We consider Schrödinger equation in R²⁺¹${\mathbb{R}}^{2+1}$ with nonlinear scalar potential. The potentials are time-independent or determined as solutions to inhomogeneous wave equations. By constructing a modified propagator, we derive Kato-type smoothing estimates for the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation. With the help of these results, we prove the unique solvability of the nonlinear Klein–Gordon–Schrödinger (NKGS) system for all time in the energy space.     

The nonlinear Schrödinger equation with white noise dispersion

Under certain scaling the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with random dispersion converges to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with white noise dispersion. The aim of this work is to prove that this latter equation is globally well posed in L² or H¹. The main ingredient is the generalization of the classical Strichartz estimates. Additionally, we justify rigorously the formal limit described above.