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In this paper, we are concerned with the existence and concentration phenomena of solutions for the following singularly perturbed fractional Schr\"{o}dinger problem \begin{align*} \varepsilon^{2s}(-\Delta)^su+V(x)u=f(u) \ \ \ \mbox{in} \ \…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-09 Hua Jin , Wenbin Liu , Jianjun Zhang

In this paper we study the focusing cubic wave equation in 1+5 dimensions with radial initial data as well as the one-equivariant wave maps equation in 1+3 dimensions with the model target manifolds $\mathbb{S}^3$ and $\mathbb{H}^3$. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Benjamin Dodson , Andrew Lawrie

This article is concerned with time global behavior of solutions to focusing mass-subcritical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation of power type with data in a critical homogeneous weighted $L^2$ space. We give a sharp sufficient condition for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-31 Satoshi Masaki

We consider the defocusing nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation in several space dimensions, in the presence of an external potential depending on only one space vari-able. This potential is bounded from below, and may grow arbitrarily fast…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Rémi Carles , Clément Gallo

We investigate the global well-posedness and modified scattering for the one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation with gauge-invariant polynomial nonlinearity. For small localized initial data of finite energy in a low-regularity class, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Jacek Jendrej , Tony Salvi

Caustics are natural phenomena in which nature concentrates the energy of waves. Although, they are known mostly in optics, caustics are intrinsic to all wave phenomena. For example, studies show that fluctuations in the profile of an ocean…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-22 Akbar Safari , Robert Fickler , Miles J. Padgett , Robert W. Boyd

We give a short proof of asymptotic completeness and global existence for the cubic Nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation in one dimension. Our approach to dealing with the long range behavior of the asymptotic solution is by reducing it, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Hans Lindblad , Avy Soffer

When high-frequency sound waves travel through media with anomalous diffusion, such as biological tissues, their motion can be described by nonlinear wave equations of fractional higher order. These can be understood as nonlocal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Vanja Nikolić

In this paper we address the question of the pointwise almost everywhere limit of nonlinear Schr\"odinger flows to the initial data, in both the continuous and the periodic settings. Then we show how, in some cases, certain smoothing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-02-26 E. Compaan , R. Lucà , G. Staffilani

We investigate numerically by a conservative difference scheme in complex arithmetic the head-on and takeover collision dynamics of the solitary waves as solutions of linearly Coupled Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equations for various initial…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-08-28 Michail D Todorov

We investigate existence and asymptotic completeness of the wave operators for nonlinear Klein-Gordon and Schr\"odinger equations with a defocusing exponential nonlinearity in two space dimensions. A certain threshold is defined based on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Slim Ibrahim , Mohamed Majdoub , Nader Masmoudi , Kenji Nakanishi

We study a stochastic Schr{\"o}dinger equation with a quadratic nonlinearity and a space-time fractional perturbation, in space dimension less than 3. When the Hurst index is large enough, we prove local well-posedness of the problem using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Aurélien Deya , Nicolas Schaeffer , Laurent Thomann

Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations (NLS) of the Hartree type occur in the modeling of quantum semiconductor devices. Their "semiclassical" limit of vanishing (scaled) Planck constant is both a mathematical challenge and practically relevant…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Remi Carles , Norbert Mauser , Hans Peter Stimming

We study the validity of geometric optics in $L^\infty$ for nonlinear wave equations in three space dimensions whose solutions, pulse like, focus at a point. If the amplitude of the initial data is subcritical, then no nonlinear effect…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Remi Carles , Jeffrey Rauch

We study the semiclassical behavior of the focusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation in 1+1-dimensions under discontinuous "barrier" data and we describe the violent oscillations arising in terms of theta functions. The construction of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-07-17 Spyridon Kamvissis

A~dynamical justification of quantum differential cross section in the context of long time transition to stationary regime for the Schr\"odinger equation is suggested. The problem has been stated by Reed and Simon. Our approach is based on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 Alexander Komech

We study the asymptotic behaviour, as time goes to infinity, of the Fisher-KPP equation $\partial_t u=\Delta u +u-u^2$ in spatial dimension $2$, when the initial condition looks like a Heaviside function. Thus the solution is,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Jean-Michel Roquejoffre , Violaine Roussier-Michon

Schr\"odinger equations with nonlinearities concentrated in some regions of space are good models of various physical situations and have interesting mathematical properties. We show that in the semiclassical limit it is possible to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Giovanni Jona-Lasinio , Carlo Presilla , Johannes Sjöstrand

We study a non-linear Schroedinger equation with a Hartree-type nonlinearity and a localized random time-dependent external potential. Sharp dispersive estimates for the linear Schroedinger equation with a random time-dependent potential…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-11 Marius Beceanu , Avy Soffer

In this paper, we describe the asymptotic behaviour of globally defined solutions and of bounded solutions blowing up in finite time of the radial energy-critical focusing non-linear wave equation in three space dimension.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-03 Thomas Duyckaerts , Carlos Kenig , Frank Merle