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Sharp thresholds for stability and instability of standing waves in a double power nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation

Analysis of PDEs 2021-12-15 v1

Abstract

We study the stability/instability of standing waves for the one dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with double power nonlinearities: \begin{align*} &i\partial_t u +\partial_x^2 u -|u|^{p-1}u +|u|^{q-1}u=0, \quad (t,x)\in \mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R} ,~1<p<q. \end{align*} When q<5q<5, the stability properties of standing waves eiωtϕωe^{i\omega t}\phi_{\omega} may change for the frequency ω\omega. A sufficient condition for yielding instability for small frequencies are obtained in previous results, but it has not been known what the sharp condition is. In this paper we completely calculate the explicit formula of limω0ωϕωL22\lim_{\omega\to0}\partial_{\omega}\|\phi_{\omega}\|_{L^2}^2, which is independent of interest, and establish the sharp thresholds for stability and instability of standing waves.

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@article{arxiv.2112.07540,
  title  = {Sharp thresholds for stability and instability of standing waves in a double power nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation},
  author = {Masayuki Hayashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.07540},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

11 pages. A similar result was obtained independently in arXiv:2112.06529 which appeared on 13 Dec 2021