A Nekhoroshev type theorem for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on the d-dimensional torus.

We prove a Nekhoroshev type theorem for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $$iu_t=-\Delta u+V\star u+\partial_{\bar u}g(u,\bar u)\, \quad x\in \T^d,$$ where $V$ is a typical smooth potential and $g$ is analytic in both variables. More precisely we prove that if the initial datum is analytic in a strip of width $\rho>0$ with a bound on this strip equals to $\eps$ then, if $\eps$ is small enough, the solution of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation above remains analytic in a strip of width $\rho/2$ and bounded on this strip by $C\eps$ during very long time of order $\eps^{-\alpha|\ln \eps|^\beta}$ for some constants $C> 0$, $\alpha>0$ and $\beta<1$.