Scattering regularity for small data solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation

Authors Jesse Gell-Redman, Seán Gomes, Andrew Hassell

Publication date 21 May 2023

Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Propagation of singularities; initial value problems on manifolds (58J47)

Abstract: Using the Fredholm theory of the linear time-dependent Schr"odinger equation set up in our previous article arXiv:2201.03140, we solve the final-state problem for the nonlinear Schr"odinger problem

(D_t + Delta + V) u = N[u], quad u(z,t) sim (4pi it)^{-n/2} e^{i|z|^2/4t} f�ig( frac{z}{2t} �ig), quad t o -infty,

where

u : m a t h b b R^{n + 1} o m a t h b b C

is the unknown and

f : m a t h b b R^{n} o m a t h b b C

is the asymptotic data. Here

D_{t} = - i f r a c p a r t i a l p a r t i a l t

and

D e l t a = s u m_{j = 1}^{n} D_{z_{j}} D_{z_{j}}

is the positive Laplacian, or more generally a compactly supported, nontrapping perturbation of this,

V

is a smooth compactly supported potential function, and the nonlinear term

N

is a (suitable) polynomial in

u

,

p a r t i a l_{z_{j}} u

and their complex conjugates satisfying phase invariance. Our assumption on the asymptotic data

f

is that it is small in a certain function space

m a t h c a l W^{k}

constructed in arXiv:2201.03140, for sufficiently large

k i n m a t h b b N

, where the index

k

measures both regularity and decay at infinity (it is similar to, but not quite a standard weighted Sobolev space

H^{k, k} (m a t h b b R^{n})

). We find that for

N [u] = p m | u |^{p - 1} u

,

p

odd, and

(n, p) e q (1, 3)

then if the asymptotic data as

t o - i n f t y

is small in

m a t h c a l W^{k}

, then the asymptotic data as

t o + i n f t y

is also in

m a t h c a l W^{k}

; that is, the nonlinear scattering map preserves these spaces of asymptotic data. For a more general nonlinearity involving derivatives of

u

, we show that if the asymptotic data as

t o - i n f t y

is small in

l a n g l e z e t a a n g l e^{- 1} m a t h c a l W_{z}^{k} e t a

, then the asymptotic data as

t o + i n f t y

is also in this space (where

z e t a

is the argument of

f

).

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