A Rigorous Derivation of the Hamiltonian Structure for the Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation
Abstract
We consider the cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) in any spatial dimension, which is a well-known example of an infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian system. Inspired by the knowledge that the NLS is an effective equation for a system of interacting bosons as the particle number tends to infinity, we provide a derivation of the Hamiltonian structure, which is comprised of both a Hamiltonian functional and a weak symplectic structure, for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation from quantum many-body systems. Our geometric constructions are based on a quantized version of the Poisson structure introduced by Marsden, Morrison and Weinstein for a system describing the evolution of finitely many indistinguishable classical particles.
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@article{arxiv.1908.03847,
title = {A Rigorous Derivation of the Hamiltonian Structure for the Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation},
author = {Dana Mendelson and Andrea R. Nahmod and Nataša Pavlović and Matthew Rosenzweig and Gigliola Staffilani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.03847},
year = {2019}
}
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81 pages