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Instability of stationary solutions for double power nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations in one dimension

Analysis of PDEs 2025-02-27 v2

Abstract

We consider a double power nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation which possesses the algebraically decaying stationary solution ϕ0\phi_0 as well as exponentially decaying standing waves eiωtϕω(x)e^{i\omega t}\phi_\omega(x) with ω>0\omega>0. It is well-known from the general theory that stability properties of standing waves are determined by the derivative of ωM(ω):=12ϕωL22\omega\mapsto M(\omega):=\frac{1}{2}\|\phi_\omega\|_{L^2}^2; namely eiωtϕωe^{i\omega t}\phi_\omega with ω>0\omega>0 is stable if M(ω)>0M'(\omega)>0 and unstable if M(ω)<0M'(\omega)<0. However, the stability/instability of stationary solutions is outside the general theory from the viewpoint of spectral properties of linearized operators. In this paper we prove the instability of the stationary solution ϕ0\phi_0 in one dimension under the condition M(0):=limω0M(ω)[,0)M'(0):=\lim_{\omega\downarrow 0}M'(\omega)\in[-\infty, 0). The key in the proof is the construction of the one-sided derivative of ωϕω\omega\mapsto\phi_\omega at ω=0\omega=0, which is effectively used to construct the unstable direction of ϕ0\phi_0.

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@article{arxiv.2304.14337,
  title  = {Instability of stationary solutions for double power nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations in one dimension},
  author = {Noriyoshi Fukaya and Masayuki Hayashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.14337},
  year   = {2025}
}

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26 pages, 2 figures, final version