Solutions to the nonlinear Schroedinger equation carrying momentum along a curve. Part I: study of the limit set and approximate solutions

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Authors Fethi Mahmoudi, Andrea Malchiodi, Marcelo Montenegro

Publication date 1 August 2007

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Positive solutions to nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B18) Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) Resonance in context of PDEs (35B34) Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations (35J20)

Abstract: We prove existence of a special class of solutions to the (elliptic) Nonlinear Schroeodinger Equation $-epsilo{n}^{2}Deltapsi+V(x)psi=|psi{|}^{p-1}psi$, on a manifold or in the Euclidean space. Here V represents the potential, p an exponent greater than 1 and $epsilon$ a small parameter corresponding to the Planck constant. As $epsilon$ tends to zero (namely in the semiclassical limit) we prove existence of complex-valued solutions which concentrate along closed curves, and whose phase is highly oscillatory. Physically, these solutions carry quantum-mechanical momentum along the limit curves. In this first part we provide the characterization of the limit set, with natural stationarity and non-degeneracy conditions. We then construct an approximate solution up to order $epsilo{n}^2$, showing that these conditions appear naturally in a Taylor expansion of the equation in powers of $epsilon$. Based on these, an existence result will be proved in the second part.

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