On ill-posedness for the one-dimensional periodic cubic Schrödinger equation (Q1012970): Difference between revisions

The ill-posedness in \(H^s(T)\), \(s>0\), of the cubic Schrödinger equation \[ i u_t + u_{xx}+ \gamma |u|^2 u \;\;(\gamma \neq 0) \] in the periodic setting (u(x,t) is a function from \(R \times T\) to \(C\), \(T :=R/2 \pi Z\) ) is proved in the sense that the flow-map is not continuous from \(H^s(T)\) into itself for any fixed \(t \neq 0\). This result is slightly stronger than the previous one [see \textit{M. Christ, J. Colliander} and \textit{T. Tao}, ``Instability of the periodic nonlinear Schrödinger equation'', preprint \url{arXiv:math/0311048} (2003)] where the discontinuity of the solution map is established. Moreover, the suggested proof is different and clarifies the ill-posedness phenomena. The approach relies on the lack of continuity for the \(L_2(T)\) weak topology of the flow-map associated with the equation. It does not exploit the existence of exact or approximate solutions. The main idea is to notice that that the nonlinear term of the cubic Schrödinger equation can be split into two terms with some specific properties.