Invariant measures and the soliton resolution conjecture

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DOI10.1002/CPA.21501zbMATH Open1303.35096arXiv1203.4027OpenAlexW2962854064WikidataQ123123921 ScholiaQ123123921MaRDI QIDQ2929395FDOQ2929395

Sourav Chatterjee

Publication date: 12 November 2014

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The soliton resolution conjecture for the focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) is the vaguely worded claim that a global solution of the NLS, for generic initial data, will eventually resolve into a radiation component that disperses like a linear solution, plus a localized component that behaves like a soliton or multi-soliton solution. Considered to be one of the fundamental open problems in the area of nonlinear dispersive equations, this conjecture has eluded a proof or even a precise formulation till date. This paper proves a "statistical version" of this conjecture at mass-subcritical nonlinearity, in the following sense. The uniform probability distribution on the set of all functions with a given mass and energy, if such a thing existed, would be a natural invariant measure for the NLS flow and would reflect the long-term behavior for "generic initial data" with that mass and energy. Unfortunately, such a probability measure does not exist. We circumvent this problem by constructing a sequence of discrete measures that, in principle, approximate this fictitious probability distribution as the grid size goes to zero. We then show that a continuum limit of this sequence of probability measures does exist in a certain sense, and in agreement with the soliton resolution conjecture, the limit measure concentrates on the unique ground state soliton. Combining this with results from ergodic theory, we present a tentative formulation and proof of the soliton resolution conjecture in the discrete setting.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4027





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