# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2011, 10(2): 397-414. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2011.10.397

## Bootstrapped Morawetz estimates and resonant decomposition for low regularity global solutions of cubic NLS on $R^2$

 1 Department of Mathematics University of Toronto, 100 St. George St, Room 4072 Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3 2 Department Of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Government

Received  June 2010 Revised  October 2010 Published  December 2010

We prove global well-posedness for the $L^2$-critical cubic defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation on $R^2$ with data $u_0 \in H^s(R^2)$ for $s > \frac{1}{3}$. The proof combines a priori Morawetz estimates obtained in [4] and the improved almost conservation law obtained in [6]. There are two technical difficulties. The first one is to estimate the variation of the improved almost conservation law on intervals given in terms of Strichartz spaces rather than in terms of $X^{s,b}$ spaces. The second one is to control the error of the a priori Morawetz estimates on an arbitrary large time interval, which is performed by a bootstrap via a double layer in time decomposition.
Citation: J. Colliander, Tristan Roy. Bootstrapped Morawetz estimates and resonant decomposition for low regularity global solutions of cubic NLS on $R^2$. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2011, 10 (2) : 397-414. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2011.10.397
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