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Blowup for fractional NLS

Analysis of PDEs 2015-10-13 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider fractional NLS with focusing power-type nonlinearity itu=(Δ)suu2σu,(t,x)R×RN,i \partial_t u = (-\Delta)^s u - |u|^{2 \sigma} u, \quad (t,x) \in \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^N, where 1/2<s<11/2< s < 1 and 0<σ<0 < \sigma < \infty for sN/2s \geq N/2 and 0<σ2s/(N2s)0 < \sigma \leq 2s/(N-2s) for s<N/2s < N/2. We prove a general criterion for blowup of radial solutions in RN\mathbb{R}^N with N2N \geq 2 for L2L^2-supercritical and L2L^2-critical powers σ2s/N\sigma \geq 2s/N. In addition, we study the case of fractional NLS posed on a bounded star-shaped domain ΩRN\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N in any dimension N1N \geq 1 and subject to exterior Dirichlet conditions. In this setting, we prove a general blowup result without imposing any symmetry assumption on u(t,x)u(t,x). For the blowup proof in RN\mathbb{R}^N, we derive a localized virial estimate for fractional NLS in RN\mathbb{R}^N, which uses Balakrishnan's formula for the fractional Laplacian (Δ)s(-\Delta)^s from semigroup theory. In the setting of bounded domains, we use a Pohozaev-type estimate for the fractional Laplacian to prove blowup.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1509.08845,
  title  = {Blowup for fractional NLS},
  author = {Thomas Boulenger and Dominik Himmelsbach and Enno Lenzmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.08845},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

25 pages. Revised version, where some typos have been fixed. Comments are welcome

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