A note on the \(H^s\)-critical inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger equation (Q6123785)

Summary: In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for the \(H^s\)-critical inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger (INLS) equation \[ i\, u_t + \Delta u=|x|^{-b} f(u), \quad u(0)=u_0 \in H^s (\mathbb{R}^n), \] where \(n\in \mathbb{N}, 0\leq s<\frac{n}{2}, 0<b<\min \{ 2,n-s,1+\frac{n-2s}{2}\}\) and \(f(u)\) is a nonlinear function that behaves like \(\lambda |u|^{\sigma}u\) with \(\lambda \in\mathbb{C}\) and \(\sigma =\frac{4-2b}{n-2s}\). First, we establish the local well-posedness as well as the small data global well-posedness in \(H^s (\mathbb{R}^n)\) for the \(H^s\)-critical INLS equation by using the contraction mapping principle based on the Strichartz estimates in Sobolev-Lorentz spaces. Next, we obtain some standard continuous dependence results for the \(H^s\)-critical INLS equation. Our results about the well-posedness and standard continuous dependence for the \(H^s\)-critical INLS equation improve the ones of Aloui-Tayachi [Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. 41 (2021), 5409-5437] and An-Kim [Evol. Equ. Control Theory 12 (2023), 1039-1055] by extending the validity of \(s\) and \(b\). Based on the local well-posedness in \(H^1 (\mathbb{R}^n)\), we finally establish the blow-up criteria for \(H^s\)-solutions to the focusing energy-critical INLS equation. In particular, we prove the finite time blow-up for finite-variance, radially symmetric or cylindrically symmetric initial data.