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Continuations of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation beyond the singularity

Analysis of PDEs 2015-05-27 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We present four continuations of the critical nonlinear \schro equation (NLS) beyond the singularity: 1) a sub-threshold power continuation, 2) a shrinking-hole continuation for ring-type solutions, 3) a vanishing nonlinear-damping continuation, and 4) a complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGL) continuation. Using asymptotic analysis, we explicitly calculate the limiting solutions beyond the singularity. These calculations show that for generic initial data that leads to a loglog collapse, the sub-threshold power limit is a Bourgain-Wang solution, both before and after the singularity, and the vanishing nonlinear-damping and CGL limits are a loglog solution before the singularity, and have an infinite-velocity{\rev{expanding core}} after the singularity. Our results suggest that all NLS continuations share the universal feature that after the singularity time TcT_c, the phase of the singular core is only determined up to multiplication by eiθe^{i\theta}. As a result, interactions between post-collapse beams (filaments) become chaotic. We also show that when the continuation model leads to a point singularity and preserves the NLS invariance under the transformation ttt\rightarrow-t and ψψ\psi\rightarrow\psi^\ast, the singular core of the weak solution is symmetric with respect to TcT_c. Therefore, the sub-threshold power and the{\rev{shrinking}}-hole continuations are symmetric with respect to TcT_c, but continuations which are based on perturbations of the NLS equation are generically asymmetric.

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@article{arxiv.1103.1962,
  title  = {Continuations of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation beyond the singularity},
  author = {G. Fibich and M. Klein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.1962},
  year   = {2015}
}