Cascade of phase shifts and creation of nonlinear focal points for supercritical semiclassical Hartree equation (Q617808)

The author of this interesting paper studies the semiclassical limit \((\varepsilon\to 0)\) for the Cauchy problem of the semiclassical nonlinear Schrödinger equation for \((t,x)\in\mathbb R_+\times\mathbb R^n\) \[ i\varepsilon\partial_tu^\varepsilon+ \frac{\varepsilon^2}{2}\Delta u^\varepsilon= \varepsilon^\alpha N(u^\varepsilon), \quad \alpha >0, \] where \(u^\varepsilon|_{t=0}(x)= a_0(x) e^{-i\frac{|x|^2}{2\varepsilon}}\). Suppose that the nonlinear source has the form \[ N(u^\varepsilon)= \lambda (|x|^{-\gamma }\ast |u^\varepsilon|^2) u^\varepsilon, \] where \(n\geq 3\), \(\lambda \) is a real number, and \(\gamma \) is a positive number. The author discusses the asymptotical behavior of phase function associated with the WKB approximation near the caustic when a nonlinearity is supercritical. In this case, it is known that a phase shift occurs in a neighbourhood of focusing time in the case of focusing cubic nonlinear equation.