# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

March  2018, 17(2): 487-504. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018027

## Sharp well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the fourth order nonlinear Schrödinger equation

 1 School of Mathematics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510640, China 2 College of Mathematics and Information Science, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, Henan 453007, China

Received  January 2017 Revised  September 2017 Published  March 2018

Fund Project: This work is supported by NSFC under grant numbers 11571118, 11771127 and 11401180, and also by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China under the grant number 2017ZD094.

In this paper, we investigate the Cauchy problem for the fourth order nonlinear Schrödinger equation
 $i \partial_{t}u+\partial_{x}^{4}u=u^{2},\ \ (t,x)∈[0,T]× \mathbb{R}.$
Zheng (Adv. Differential Equations, 16(2011), 467-486.) has proved that the problem is locally well-posed in
 $H^{s}(\mathbb{R})$
with
 $-\frac{7}{4} In this paper, we aim at extending Zheng's work to a lower regularity index. We prove that the equation is locally well-posed in $H^{s}(\mathbb{R})$when $s≥q -2$and ill-posed when $s < -2$in the sense that the solution map is discontinuous for $s <-2$. The key ingredient used in this paper is Besov-type space introduced by Bejenaru and Tao (Journal of Functional Analysis, 233(2006), 228-259.). Citation: Yuanyuan Ren, Yongsheng Li, Wei Yan. Sharp well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the fourth order nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, 2018, 17 (2) : 487-504. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2018027 ##### References:  [1] I. Bejenaru and T. Tao, Sharp well-posedness and ill-posedness results for a quadratic nonlinear Schrödinger equation, J. Funct. Anal., 233 (2006), 228-259. [2] J. Bourgain, Fourier transform restriction phenomena for certain lattice subsets and applications to nonlinear evolution equations I. Schrödinger equations, Geom. 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