WKB analysis for nonlinear Schrödinger equations with potential

Singular perturbations in context of PDEs (35B25) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Existence, uniqueness, and regularity theory for compressible fluids and gas dynamics (76N10) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)

Abstract: We justify the WKB analysis for the semiclassical nonlinear Schr"{o}dinger equation with a subquadratic potential. This concerns subcritical, critical, and supercritical cases as far as the geometrical optics method is concerned. In the supercritical case, this extends a previous result by E. Grenier; we also have to restrict to nonlinearities which are defocusing and cubic at the origin, but besides subquadratic potentials, we consider initial phases which may be unbounded. For this, we construct solutions for some compressible Euler equations with unbounded source term and unbounded initial velocity.

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For the initial value problem \(i\varepsilon\partial_tu^\varepsilon+\frac{\varepsilon^2}{2}\Delta u^\varepsilon=V(t,x)u^\varepsilon+\varepsilon^kf(| u^\varepsilon| ^2)u^\varepsilon\), \(x\in \mathbb{R}^n\), \(k\geq 0\), \(u^\varepsilon=a_0^\varepsilon(x)\exp (i\varphi_0(x)/\varepsilon)\) using WKB methods the asymptotic behaviour of \(u^\varepsilon\) is described when the potential \(V\) and the initial phase \(\varphi_0\) are smooth and subquadratic in the spatial variable. The subscritical, critical and supercritical cases are considered on the base of WKB analysis and also of geometrical optics method. In particular for the supercritical case the results of [\textit{E. Grenier}, Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 126, No. 2, 523--530 (1998; Zbl 0910.35115)] are extended under the restriction to defocusing, cubic at the origin nonlinearity, where besides subquadratic potentials the initial phases may be unbounded.

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