Logarithmic estimates for mean-field models in dimension two and the Schrödinger-Poisson system

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Abstract: In dimension two, we investigate a free energy and the ground state energy of the Schr"odinger-Poisson system coupled with a logarithmic nonlinearity in terms of underlying functional inequalities which take into account the scaling invariances of the problem. Such a system can be considered as a nonlinear Schr"odinger equation with a cubic but nonlocal Poisson nonlinearity, and a local logarithmic nonlinearity. Both cases of repulsive and attractive forces are considered. We also assume that there is an external potential with minimal growth at infinity, which turns out to have a logarithmic growth. Our estimates rely on new logarithmic interpolation inequalities which combine logarithmic Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities. The two-dimensional model appears as a limit case of more classical problems in higher dimensions.


In space dimension \(d=2\), the authors consider the Schrödinger-Poisson energy \[ \mathcal E[u]:= \int_{\mathbb R^2} |\nabla u|^2 \, dx + \alpha \int_{\mathbb R^2} V |u|^2 \, dx + 2\pi \beta \int_{\mathbb R^2} W(x) |u(x)|^2 \, dx + \gamma \int_{\mathbb R^2} |u|^2 \log |u|^2\, dx, \] where \(V(x) = 2\log (1+|x|^2)\) and \(W(x) = -(2\pi)^{-1} \int_{\mathbb R^2} \log|x-y| |u^2(y)| \, dy\), as well as a corresponding free energy functional \(\mathcal F\) which contains no kinetic term \(\|\nabla u\|_2^2\). The quantities in \(\mathcal E\) turn out to all have similar scaling behavior. This paper thoroughly investigates the various logarithmic-type functional inequalities which hold between some or all of these quantities, including some new ones, in particular an interpolation inequality combining the logarithmic HLS and Sobolev inequalities. These inequalities then permit to establish the main results of this paper, which consist in various statements on boundedness, respectively unboundedness, from below of both \(\mathcal E\) and \(\mathcal F\), depending on the values of \(\alpha\), \(\beta\) and \(\gamma\).



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