Local minimizers in absence of ground states for the critical NLS energy on metric graphs

DOI10.1017/PRM.2020.36MaRDI QIDQ4987474zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dario Pierotti, Nicola Soave, Gianmaria Verzini

Publication date 3 May 2021

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11533

zbMATH Keywords

\(L^2\)-critical exponentnon-compact metric graphsnon-linear Schrödinger equationnormalized solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Critical exponents in context of PDEs (35B33) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) PDEs on graphs and networks (ramified or polygonal spaces) (35R02) Variational inequalities (49J40) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35)

Abstract: We consider the mass-critical nonlinear Schr"odinger equation on non-compact metric graphs. A quite complete description of the structure of the ground states, which correspond to global minimizers of the energy functional under a mass constraint, is provided by Adami, Serra and Tilli in arXiv:1605.07666, where it is proved that existence and properties of ground states depend in a crucial way on both the value of the mass, and the topological properties of the underlying graph. In this paper we address cases when ground states do not exist and show that, under suitable assumptions, constrained local minimizers of the energy do exist. This result paves the way to the existence of stable solutions in the time-dependent equation in cases where the ground state energy level is not achieved.

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