Dynamics of nonlinear Schrödinger/Gross-Pitaevskii equations: mass transfer in systems with solitons and degenerate neutral modes (Q841569)

The authors prove the asymptotic stability of the ground state of NLS/GP equation when the linearized spectrum has degenerate neutral modes. They show that the solution has three interacting parts: i) a modulating soliton, parametrized by the motion along ground state; ii) oscillatory, spacially localized, neutral modes, which decay with time; iii) a dispersive part, which decays in a local energy norm. The neutral modes and dispersive waves decay via transferring their mass to the soliton manifold or to spatial infinity. Additionally, degenerate neutral modes are coupled and exchange mass among themselves in addtition to with the soliton and radiation.