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We consider the minimization of the NLS energy on a metric tree, either rooted or unrooted, subject to a mass constraint. With respect to the same problem on other types of metric graphs, several new features appear, such as the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Simone Dovetta , Enrico Serra , Paolo Tilli

In systems characterized by a rough potential energy landscape, local energetic minima and saddles define a network of metastable states whose topology strongly influences the dynamics. Changes in temperature, causing the merging and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-07-24 Marco Baiesi , Lorenzo Bongini , Lapo Casetti , Lorenzo Tattini

We consider the subcritical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on non-compact quantum graphs with an attractive potential supported in the compact core, and investigate the existence and the nonexistence of Ground States, defined as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Riccardo Adami , Ivan Gallo , David Spitzkopf

We study the defocusing nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on noncompact metric graphs under general self-adjoint vertex conditions ensuring the existence of a negative eigenvalue of the Hamiltonian operator. First, we focus on the existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Élio Durand-Simonnet , Damien Galant , Boris Shakarov

We investigate the ground states for the focusing, subcritical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a point defect in dimension two, defined as the minimizers of the energy functional at fixed mass. We prove that ground states exist for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Riccardo Adami , Filippo Boni , Raffaele Carlone , Lorenzo Tentarelli

We establish general non-uniqueness results for normalized ground states of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with power nonlinearity on metric graphs. Basically, we show that, whenever in the $L^2$-subcritical regime a graph hosts ground…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-09 Simone Dovetta

We consider a kind of nonlinear systems on a locally finite graphs $G=(V,E)$. We prove via the mountain pass theorem that this kind of systems has a nontrivial ground state solution which depends on the parameter $\lambda$ with some…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-23 Jinyan Xu , Liang Zhao

We study the behavior of soliton states for the subcritical, time-dependent focusing NLS equation on a large family of non-compact metric graphs with Kirchhoff boundary conditions. This family is characterized by a topological assumption…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Martino Caliaro , Diego Noja

We investigate the existence and the uniqueness of NLS ground states of fixed mass on the half-line in the presence of a point interaction at the origin. The nonlinearity is of power type, and the regime is either $L^2$-subcritical or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Filippo Boni , Raffaele Carlone

We investigate which nonlocal-interaction energies have a ground state (global minimizer). We consider this question over the space of probability measures and establish a sharp condition for the existence of ground states. We show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Robert Simione , Dejan Slepčev , Ihsan Topaloglu

We show the existence and stability of ground state solutions (g.s.s.) for $L^2$-critical magnetic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations (mNLS) for a class of unbounded electromagnetic potentials. We then give non-existence result by…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Oleg Asipchuk , Christopher Leonard , Shijun Zheng

The purpose of this paper is to develop a general existence theory for constrained minimization problems for functionals defined on function spaces on metric measure spaces $(\mathcal M, d, \mu)$. We apply this theory to functionals defined…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-10 Matthias Hofmann

We study analytically the existence and uniqueness of the ground state of the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (NLSE) with a general power nonlinearity described by the power index $\sigma\ge0$. For the NLSE under a box or a harmonic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Xinran Ruan

We study the NLS Equation on the line with a point interaction given by the superposition of an attractive delta potential with a dipole interaction, in the cases of $L^2$-subcritical and $L^2$-critical nonlinearity. For a subcritical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Riccardo Adami , Filippo Boni , Takaaki Nakamura , Alice Ruighi

We consider the existence of normalized solutions to nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations on noncompact metric graphs in the $L^2$ supercritical regime. For sufficiently small prescribed mass ($L^2$ norm), we prove existence of positive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Simone Dovetta , Louis Jeanjean , Enrico Serra

We investigate the ground states of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a defect located at a fixed point. The nonlinearity is focusing and consists of a subcritical power. The notion of ground state can be defined in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Riccardo Adami , Diego Noja , Nicola Visciglia

We compare ground states for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation on metric graphs, defined as global minimizers of the action functional constrained on the Nehari manifold, and least action solutions, namely minimizers of the action among…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-20 Colette De Coster , Simone Dovetta , Damien Galant , Enrico Serra

We consider the Schroedinger equation with a subcritical focusing power nonlinearity on a noncompact metric graph, and prove that for every finite edge there exists a threshold value of the mass, beyond which there exists a positive bound…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-26 Riccardo Adami , Enrico Serra , Paolo Tilli

We consider a generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with a power nonlinearity |\psi|^2\mu\psi, of focusing type, describing propagation on the ramified structure given by N edges connected at a vertex (a star graph). To model…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-18 Riccardo Adami , Claudio Cacciapuoti , Domenico Finco , Diego Noja

We review some recent results and announce some new ones on the problem of the existence of ground states for the Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation on graphs endowed with vertices where the matching condition, instead of being free (or…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Riccardo Adami , Filippo Boni , Alice Ruighi