Energy-critical NLS with potentials of quadratic growth

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February 2018, 38(2): 563-587. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2018025

Energy-critical NLS with potentials of quadratic growth

Casey Jao

Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Received April 2017 Published February 2018

Fund Project: The first author is supported by NSF grants DMS-0838680, DMS-1265868, DMS-0901166, DMS-1161396.

We consider the global wellposedness problem for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

$i\partial_t u = [-\tfrac{1}{2} Δ + V(x)] u ± |u|^{4/(d-2)} u, \ u(0)∈ Σ(\mathbf{R}^d),$

where

$Σ$

is the weighted Sobolev space

$\dot{H}^1 \cap |x|^{-1} L^2$

. The case

$V(x) = \tfrac{1}{2}|x|^2$

was recently treated by the author. This note generalizes the results to a class of "approximately quadratic" potentials.

We closely follow the previous concentration compactness arguments for the harmonic oscillator. A key technical difference is that in the absence of a concrete formula for the linear propagator, we apply more general tools from microlocal analysis, including a Fourier integral parametrix of Fujiwara.

Keywords: Energy-critical, profile decompositions, Schrödinger operators.

Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35Q55; Secondary: 53C35.

Citation: Casey Jao. Energy-critical NLS with potentials of quadratic growth. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - A, 2018, 38 (2) : 563-587. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2018025

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[1]	K. Asada and D. Fujiwara, On some oscillatory integral transformations in $L^{2}(\textbf{R}^{n})$, Japan. J. Math. (N.S.), 4 (1978), 299-361. Google Scholar
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[3]	H. Brézis and E. Lieb, A relation between pointwise convergence of functions and convergence of functionals, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc., 88 (1983), 486-490. doi: 10.2307/2044999. Google Scholar
[4]	R. Carles, Nonlinear schrödinger equation with time-dependent potential, Commun. Math Sci., 9 (2011), 937-964. doi: 10.4310/CMS.2011.v9.n4.a1. Google Scholar
[5]	J. Colliander, M. Keel, G. Staffilani, H. Takaoka and T. Tao, Global well-posedness and scattering for the energy-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation in $\Bbb R^3$, Ann. of Math. (2), 167 (2008), 767-865. doi: 10.4007/annals.2008.167.767. Google Scholar
[6]	G. B. Folland, Harmonic Analysis in Phase Space vol. 122 of Annals of Mathematics Studies, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1989. doi: 10.1515/9781400882427. Google Scholar
[7]	D. Fujiwara, On the boundedness of integral transformations with highly oscillatory kernels, Proc. Japan Acad., 51 (1975), 96-99. doi: 10.3792/pja/1195518693. Google Scholar
[8]	D. Fujiwara, A construction of the fundamental solution for the Schrödinger equation, J. Analyse Math., 35 (1979), 41-96. doi: 10.1007/BF02791062. Google Scholar
[9]	D. Fujiwara, Remarks on convergence of the Feynman path integrals, Duke Math. J., 47 (1980), 559-600. doi: 10.1215/S0012-7094-80-04734-1. Google Scholar
[10]	W. Hebisch, A multiplier theorem for Schrödinger operators, Colloq. Math., 60/61 (1990), 659-664. doi: 10.4064/cm-60-61-2-659-664. Google Scholar
[11]	A. D. Ionescu and B. Pausader, The energy-critical defocusing NLS on $\mathbb{T}^3$, Duke Math. J., 161 (2012), 1581-1612. doi: 10.1215/00127094-1593335. Google Scholar
[12]	A. D. Ionescu and B. Pausader, Global well-posedness of the energy-critical defocusing {NLS} on $\mathbb{R}× \mathbb{T}^3$, Comm. Math. Phys., 312 (2012), 781-831. doi: 10.1007/s00220-012-1474-3. Google Scholar
[13]	A. D. Ionescu, B. Pausader and G. Staffilani, On the global well-posedness of energy-critical {S}chrödinger equations in curved spaces, Anal. PDE, 5 (2012), 705-746. doi: 10.2140/apde.2012.5.705. Google Scholar
[14]	C. Jao, The energy-critical quantum harmonic oscillator, Comm. Partial Differential Equations, 41 (2016), 79-133. doi: 10.1080/03605302.2015.1095767. Google Scholar
[15]	M. Keel and T. Tao, Endpoint Strichartz estimates, Amer. J. Math., 120 (1998), 955-980. doi: 10.1353/ajm.1998.0039. Google Scholar
[16]	C. E. Kenig and F. Merle, Global well-posedness, scattering and blow-up for the energy-critical, focusing, non-linear Schrödinger equation in the radial case, Invent. Math., 166 (2006), 645-675. doi: 10.1007/s00222-006-0011-4. Google Scholar
[17]	S. Keraani, On the blow up phenomenon of the critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation, J. Funct. Anal., 235 (2006), 171-192. doi: 10.1016/j.jfa.2005.10.005. Google Scholar
[18]	R. Killip, S. Kwon, S. Shao and M. Visan, On the mass-critical generalized KdV equation, Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst., 32 (2012), 191-221. doi: 10.3934/dcds.2012.32.191. Google Scholar
[19]	R. Killip, B. Stovall and M. Visan, Scattering for the cubic Klein-Gordon equation in two space dimensions, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc., 364 (2012), 1571-1631. doi: 10.1090/S0002-9947-2011-05536-4. Google Scholar
[20]	R. Killip and M. Visan, The focusing energy-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation in dimensions five and higher, Amer. J. Math., 132 (2010), 361-424. doi: 10.1353/ajm.0.0107. Google Scholar
[21]	R. Killip and M. Vişan, Nonlinear Schrödinger equations at critical regularity, in Evolution equations, vol. 17 of Clay Math. Proc., Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2013,325–437.Google Scholar
[22]	R. Killip, M. Visan and X. Zhang, Quintic NLS in the exterior of a strictly convex obstacle, Amer. J. Math., 138 (2016), 1193-1346. doi: 10.1353/ajm.2016.0039. Google Scholar
[23]	R. Killip, M. Visan and X. Zhang, Energy-critical NLS with quadratic potentials, Comm. Partial Differential Equations, 34 (2009), 1531-1565. doi: 10.1080/03605300903328109. Google Scholar
[24]	Y.-G. Oh, Cauchy problem and Ehrenfest's law of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with potentials, J. Differential Equations, 81 (1989), 255-274. doi: 10.1016/0022-0396(89)90123-X. Google Scholar
[25]	E. Ryckman and M. Visan, Global well-posedness and scattering for the defocusing energy-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation in $\Bbb R^{1+4}$, Amer. J. Math., 129 (2007), 1-60. doi: 10.1353/ajm.2007.0004. Google Scholar
[26]	M. E. Taylor, Tools for PDE vol. 81 of Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2000, Pseudodifferential operators, paradifferential operators, and layer potentials. Google Scholar
[27]	M. Visan, The defocusing energy-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation in higher dimensions, Duke Math. J., 138 (2007), 281-374. doi: 10.1215/S0012-7094-07-13825-0. Google Scholar
[28]	J. Zhang, Stability of attractive Bose-Einstein condensates, J. Statist. Phys., 101 (2000), 731-746. doi: 10.1023/A:1026437923987. Google Scholar

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