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Using the concentration-compactness method and the localized virial type arguments, we study the behavior of $H^1$ solutions to the focusing quintic NLS in $\R^2$, namely, $$i \partial_t u+\Delta u+|u|^4u=0,\quad\quad (x, t) \in…
We study the blow-up problem of one-dimensional nonlinear heat equations. Our result shows that for a certain class of initial conditions, the solutions blow up in finite time and we characterize the asymptotic dynamics of these solutions.…
In this paper, we investigate the initial boundary value problem of the following nonlinear extensible beam equation with nonlinear damping term $$u_{t t}+\Delta^2 u-M\left(\|\nabla u\|^2\right) \Delta u-\Delta u_t+\left|u_t\right|^{r-1}…
In this paper, we study the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with focusing point nonlinearity in dimension one. First, we establish a scattering criterion for the equation based on Kenig-Merle's compactness-rigidity argument. Then we prove…
We construct a two-parameter continuum of type II blow up solutions for the energy-critical focusing NLS in dimension $ d = 3$. The solutions collapse to a single energy bubble in finite time, precisely they have the form $ u(t,x) = e^{i…
We investigate a class of nonlinear equations of Schr\"odinger type with competing inhomogeneous nonlinearities in the non-radial inter-critical regime, \begin{align*} i \partial_t u +\Delta u &=|x|^{-b_1} |u|^{p_1-2} u - |x|^{-b_2}…
We derive several kinetic equations to model the large scale, low Fresnel number behavior of the nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equation with a rapidly fluctuating random potential. There are three types of kinetic equations the longitudinal,…
We study the asymptotic dynamics for solutions to a system of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with cubic interactions, arising in nonlinear optics. We provide sharp threshold criteria leading to global well-posedness and scattering of…
Very narrow spatial bright solitons in (1+1)D and (2+1)D versions of cubic-quintic and full saturable models are studied, starting from the full system of the Maxwell's equations, rather than from the paraxial (NLS) approximation. For the…
We consider the $L^{2}$-critical quintic focusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) on ${\bf R}$. It is well known that $H^{1}$ solutions of the aforementioned equation blow up in finite time. In higher dimensions, for $H^{1}$…
The study of nonlinear waves that collapse in finite time is a theme of universal interest, e.g. within optical, atomic, plasma physics, and nonlinear dynamics. Here we revisit the quintessential example of the nonlinear Schrodinger…
This article is devoted to a general class of one dimensional NLS problems with a cubic nonlinearity. The question of obtaining scattering, global in time solutions for such problems has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, and…
We consider the focusing $5$d Hartree equation, which is $L^2$-supercritical, with finite energy initial data, and investigate the solutions at the mass-energy threshold. We establish the existence of special solutions following the work of…
In the work Cho et al. [Jpn. J. Ind. Appl. Math. 33 (2016): 145-166] the authors conjecture that the quadratic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) $i u_t = u_{xx} + u^2 $ for $ x \in \mathbb{T}$ is globally well-posed for real initial…
We consider the Schr\"odinger equation in dimension two with a fixed, pointwise, focusing nonlinearity and show the occurrence of a blow-up phenomenon with two peculiar features: first, the energy threshold under which all solutions blow up…
In this paper we consider the nonlinear dispersive wave equation on the real line, $u_t-u_{txx}+[f(u)]_x-[f(u)]_{xxx}+\bigl[g(u)+\frac{f''(u)}{2}u_x^2\bigr]_x=0$, that for appropriate choices of the functions $f$ and $g$ includes well known…
In the first part of this article the various experimental sectors of physics in which Superluminal motions seem to appear are briefly mentioned, after a sketchy theoretical introduction. In particular, a panoramic view is presented of the…
We study the existence and stability of standing waves for a system of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with quadratic interaction in dimensions $d\leq 3$. We also study the characterization of finite time blow-up solutions with minimal…
This paper is concerned with a cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger system modeling the interaction between an optical beam and its third harmonic in a material with Kerr-type nonlinear response. We are mainly interested in the so-called…
Non linear fiber optics concerns with the non linear optical phenomena occurring inside optical fibers. The propagation of light in single-mode fibers is governed by the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) in the presence…