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Strong instability of standing waves for nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with attractive inverse power potential

Analysis of PDEs 2018-04-09 v1

Abstract

We study the strong instability of standing waves eiωtϕω(x)e^{i\omega t}\phi_\omega(x) for nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations with an L2L^2-supercritical nonlinearity and an attractive inverse power potential, where ωR\omega\in\mathbb{R} is a frequency, and ϕωH1(RN)\phi_\omega\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^N) is a ground state of the corresponding stationary equation. Recently, for nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with a harmonic potential, Ohta (2018) proved that if λ2Sω(ϕωλ)λ=10\partial_\lambda^2S_\omega(\phi_\omega^\lambda)|_{\lambda=1}\le0, then the standing wave is strongly unstable, where SωS_\omega is the action, and ϕωλ(x):=λN/2ϕω(λx)\phi_\omega^\lambda(x)\mathrel{\mathop:}=\lambda^{N/2}\phi_\omega(\lambda x) is the scaling, which does not change the L2L^2-norm. In this paper, we prove the strong instability under the same assumption as the above-mentioned in inverse power potential case. Our proof is applicable to nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with other potentials such as an attractive Dirac delta potential.

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@article{arxiv.1804.02127,
  title  = {Strong instability of standing waves for nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with attractive inverse power potential},
  author = {Noriyoshi Fukaya and Masahito Ohta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.02127},
  year   = {2018}
}

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