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A (concentration-)compact attractor for high-dimensional non-linear Schr\"odinger equations

Analysis of PDEs 2014-01-28 v6

Abstract

We study the asymptotic behavior of large data solutions to Schr\"odinger equations iut+Δu=F(u)i u_t + \Delta u = F(u) in Rd\R^d, assuming globally bounded Hx1(Rd)H^1_x(\R^d) norm (i.e. no blowup in the energy space), in high dimensions d5d \geq 5 and with nonlinearity which is energy-subcritical and mass-supercritical. In the spherically symmetric case, we show that as t+t \to +\infty, these solutions split into a radiation term that evolves according to the linear Schr\"odinger equation, and a remainder which converges in Hx1(Rd)H^1_x(\R^d) to a compact attractor, which consists of the union of spherically symmetric almost periodic orbits of the NLS flow in Hx1(Rd)H^1_x(\R^d). This is despite the total lack of any dissipation in the equation. This statement can be viewed as weak form of the "soliton resolution conjecture". We also obtain a more complicated analogue of this result for the non-spherically-symmetric case. As a corollary we obtain the "petite conjecture" of Soffer in the high dimensional non-critical case.

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@article{arxiv.math/0611402,
  title  = {A (concentration-)compact attractor for high-dimensional non-linear Schr\"odinger equations},
  author = {Terence Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0611402},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

60 pages. A confusing typo (pointed out by Tristan Roy) regarding two parameters (mu_3 and mu_4) mistakenly being swapped with each other for a large portion of the paper has now been fixed