Global well-posedness for the non-linear Maxwell-Schrödinger system

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DOI10.2422/2036-2145.202010_033zbMATH Open1498.35412arXiv1910.05297OpenAlexW3163445809MaRDI QIDQ5041372FDOQ5041372


Authors: Paolo Antonelli, Pierangelo Marcati, Raffaele Scandone Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 13 October 2022

Published in: ANNALI SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE - CLASSE DI SCIENZE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study the Cauchy problem associated to the Maxwell-Schr"odinger system with a defocusing pure-power non-linearity. This system has many applications in physics, for instance in the description of a charged non-relativistic quantum plasma, interacting with its self-generated electromagnetic potential. One consequence of our analysis is to demonstrate that the Lorentz force associated with the electromagnetic field is well-defined for solutions slightly more regular than the finite energy class. This aspect is of fundamental importance since all the related physical models require the observability of electromagnetic effects. The well-posedness of the Lorentz force still seems to be a major open problem in the class of solutions which are only finite energy. We show the global well-posedness at high regularity for the cubic and sub-cubic case, and we provide polynomial bounds for the growth of the Sobolev norm of the solutions, for a certain range of non-linearities. An important role is played by appropriate a priori dispersive estimates, obtained by means of Koch-Tzvetkov type bounds for the non-homogeneous Schr"odinger equation, which overcome the lack of Strichartz estimates for the magnetic Schr"odinger flow. Because of the power-type non-linearity, the propagation of higher regularity, globally in time, cannot be achieved via a bootstrap argument as done in [44]. Our approach then exploits the analysis of a modified energy functional, combined with the a priori bounds coming from the dispersive estimates obtained previously.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05297




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