Small data global well-posedness and scattering for the inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger equation in \(H^s (\mathbb{R}^n)\) (Q2075260)

Summary: We consider the Cauchy problem for the inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger (INLS) equation \[ iu_t +\Delta u=\vert x\vert^{-b} f(u),\quad u(0)=u_0 \in H^s (\mathbb{R}^n), \] where \(0<s< \min \{ n, \frac{n}{2} +1\}, 0<b<\min \{ 2,n-s,1+\frac{n-2s}{2}\}\) and \(f(u)\) is a nonlinear function that behaves like \(\lambda \vert u\vert^{\sigma} u\) with \(\lambda\in\mathbb{C}\) and \(\sigma >0\). We prove that the Cauchy problem of the INLS equation is globally well-posed in \(H^s (\mathbb{R}^n)\) if the initial data is sufficiently small and \(\sigma_0 < \sigma <\sigma_s\), where \(\sigma_0 = \frac{4-2b}{n}\) and \(\sigma_s = \frac{4-2b}{n-2s}\) if \(s < \frac{n}{2},\, \sigma_s =\infty\) if \(s \geq \frac{n}{2}\). Our global well-posedness result improves the one of [\textit{C. M. Guzmán}, Nonlinear Anal., Real World Appl. 37, 249--286 (2017; Zbl 1375.35486)] by extending the validity of \(s\) and \(b\). In addition, we also have the small data scattering result.