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On 1D mass subcritical nonlinear Schr\''odinger and Hartree equations in modulation spaces $M^{p, p'} \ (p<2)$

Analysis of PDEs 2026-03-17 v2

Abstract

We establish well-posedness theory for the 1D mass-subcritical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) having power-type nonlinearity uα1u|u|^{\alpha-1}u in a certain modulation spaces Mp,p(R),M^{p,p'}(\mathbb{R}), where pp' is a H\"older conjugate of pp, with 4/3<p<24/3<p<2 and pp sufficiently close to 22. Modulation spaces have been successfully applied in understanding the dynamics of NLS near the Sobolev scaling critical regularity. In fact, despite cubic NLS is ill-posed in HsH^s for s<1/2s<-1/2, our analysis reveals that it experiences well-posedness in modulation spaces for a Cauchy data in (HsL2)Mp,p(H^{s} \setminus L^{2}) \cap M^{p,p'}. The proof adopts two different approaches to establish local well-posedness for α(1,5)\alpha \in (1,5), one exploits generalised Strichartz estimates in Fourier-Lebesgue and Lebesgue spaces; the other implements Bourgain's high-low decomposition (BHLD) method in the modulation space setting. The local solution via the (BHLD) method can be extended to global-in-time, but with a certain loss of regularity. We could combine these effectively and establish global well-posedness in Mp,pM^{p,p'} with the persistence of regularity for 1<α10/31<\alpha \leq 10/3. This is the first global result in Mp,pM^{p,p'} which establishes the persistence of regularity. Similar results are also established for the Hartree equations.

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@article{arxiv.2504.13817,
  title  = {On 1D mass subcritical nonlinear Schr\''odinger and Hartree equations in modulation spaces $M^{p, p'} \ (p<2)$},
  author = {Divyang G. Bhimani and Diksha Dhingra and Vijay Kumar Sohani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.13817},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

The global result in $M^{p,p'}, p<2$ having persistence of regularity has been added. Similar results are also established for the Hartree equations. 33 pages