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On the asymptotic behavior of large radial data for a focusing non-linear Schr\"odinger equation

Analysis of PDEs 2007-05-23 v4

Abstract

We study the asymptotic behavior of large data radial solutions to the focusing Schr\"odinger equation iut+Δu=u2ui u_t + \Delta u = -|u|^2 u in R3\R^3, assuming globally bounded H1(R3)H^1(\R^3) norm (i.e. no blowup in the energy space). We show that as t±t \to \pm \infty, these solutions split into the sum of three terms: a radiation term that evolves according to the linear Schr\"odinger equation, a smooth function localized near the origin, and an error that goes to zero in the H˙1(R3)\dot H^1(\R^3) norm. Furthermore, the smooth function near the origin is either zero (in which case one has scattering to a free solution), or has mass and energy bounded strictly away from zero, and obeys an asymptotic Pohozaev identity. These results are consistent with the conjecture of soliton resolution.

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@article{arxiv.math/0309428,
  title  = {On the asymptotic behavior of large radial data for a focusing non-linear Schr\"odinger equation},
  author = {Terence Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0309428},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

51 pages, no figures, to appear, Journal of Partial Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems. Some minor corrections and typos fixed from previous version