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Supercritical geometric optics for nonlinear Schrodinger equations

Analysis of PDEs 2009-10-06 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider the small time semi-classical limit for nonlinear Schrodinger equations with defocusing, smooth, nonlinearity. For a super-cubic nonlinearity, the limiting system is not directly hyperbolic, due to the presence of vacuum. To overcome this issue, we introduce new unknown functions, which are defined nonlinearly in terms of the wave function itself. This approach provides a local version of the modulated energy functional introduced by Y.Brenier. The system we obtain is hyperbolic symmetric, and the justification of WKB analysis follows.

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@article{arxiv.0704.2488,
  title  = {Supercritical geometric optics for nonlinear Schrodinger equations},
  author = {Thomas Alazard and Rémi Carles},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.2488},
  year   = {2009}
}
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