Sharp well-posedness for the cubic NLS and mKdV in

DOI10.1017/FMP.2024.4arXiv2003.05011OpenAlexW4393628626MaRDI QIDQ6131698FDOQ6131698

Authors: Benjamin Harrop-Griffiths, Rowan Killip, Monica Visan 

Publication date: 18 April 2024

Published in: Forum of Mathematics, Pi (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that the cubic nonlinear Schr"odinger equation (both focusing and defocusing) is globally well-posed in $H^s(mathbbR)$ for any regularity $s>-frac12$. Well-posedness has long been known for $sgeq0$, see [55], but not previously for any $s<0$. The scaling-critical value $s=-frac12$ is necessarily excluded here, since instantaneous norm inflation is known to occur [11, 40, 48]. We also prove (in a parallel fashion) well-posedness of the real- and complex-valued modified Korteweg-de Vries equations in $H^s(mathbbR)$ for any $s>-frac12$. The best regularity achieved previously was $sgeqfrac14$; see [15, 24, 33, 39]. To overcome the failure of uniform continuity of the data-to-solution map, we employ the method of commuting flows introduced in [37]. In stark contrast with our arguments in [37], an essential ingredient in this paper is the demonstration of a local smoothing effect for both equations. Despite the non-perturbative nature of the well-posedness, the gain of derivatives matches that of the underlying linear equation. To compensate for the local nature of the smoothing estimates, we also demonstrate tightness of orbits. The proofs of both local smoothing and tightness rely on our discovery of a new one-parameter family of coercive microscopic conservation laws that remain meaningful at this low regularity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05011

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zbMATH Keywords

well-posednessnonlinear Schrödinger equationmodified Korteweg–de Vries equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smoothness and regularity of solutions to PDEs (35B65) Soliton solutions (35C08) Existence problems for PDEs: global existence, local existence, non-existence (35A01) Uniqueness problems for PDEs: global uniqueness, local uniqueness, non-uniqueness (35A02) Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10)

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