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The Gross-Pitaevskii hierarchy on general rectangular tori

Analysis of PDEs 2016-03-08 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this work, we study the Gross-Pitaevskii hierarchy on general --rational and irrational-- rectangular tori of dimension two and three. This is a system of infinitely many linear partial differential equations which arises in the rigorous derivation of the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation. We prove a conditional uniqueness result for the hierarchy. In two dimensions, this result allows us to obtain a rigorous derivation of the defocusing cubic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation from the dynamics of many-body quantum systems. On irrational tori, this question was posed as an open problem in previous work of Kirkpatrick, Schlein, and Staffilani.

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@article{arxiv.1410.5338,
  title  = {The Gross-Pitaevskii hierarchy on general rectangular tori},
  author = {Sebastian Herr and Vedran Sohinger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.5338},
  year   = {2016}
}

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34 pages

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