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A global compact attractor for high-dimensional defocusing non-linear Schr\"odinger equations with potential

Analysis of PDEs 2008-05-28 v2

Abstract

We study the asymptotic behavior of large data solutions in the energy space H:=H1(Rd)H := H^1(\R^d) in very high dimension d11d \geq 11 to defocusing Schr\"odinger equations iut+Δu=up1u+Vui u_t + \Delta u = |u|^{p-1} u + Vu in Rd\R^d, where VC0(Rd)V \in C^\infty_0(\R^d) is a real potential (which could contain bound states), and 1+4d<p<1+4d21+\frac{4}{d} < p < 1+\frac{4}{d-2} is an exponent 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 HH to a compact attractor KK, which consists of the union of spherically symmetric almost periodic orbits of the NLS flow in HH. The main novelty of this result is that KK is a \emph{global} attractor, being independent of the initial energy of the initial data; in particular, no matter how large the initial data is, all but a bounded amount of energy is radiated away in the limit.

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@article{arxiv.0805.1544,
  title  = {A global compact attractor for high-dimensional defocusing non-linear Schr\"odinger equations with potential},
  author = {Terence Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.1544},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

19 pages, no figures, submitted, Dynamics of PDE. Referee corrections incorporated

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