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Asymptotic Sphere Concentration at Infinity for NLS with L^2 Constraint

Analysis of PDEs 2025-12-12 v1

Abstract

We consider the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equationΔu+V(x)u=aup+μuin Rn,Rnu2=1,-\Delta u + V(x)\,u = a\,u^p + \mu u \quad \text{in }\mathbb{R}^n,\qquad \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} u^2 = 1,modeling attractive Bose--Einstein condensates. For all dimensions n2n\ge 2 and all exponents p>1p>1, we prove the existence of normalized solutions whose L2L^2-mass concentrates on spheres with radii diverging to infinity. In particular, the concentration set escapes to infinity rather than remaining on a fixed compact hypersurface, which makes our regime qualitatively different both from classical point-concentration phenomena and from concentrating profiles in unconstrained problems. Our approach combines a tailored finite-dimensional reduction with a blow-up analysis based on Pohozaev identities and, in this way, extends the two-dimensional mass-critical result for (n,p)=(2,3)(n,p)=(2,3) obtained in Guo--Tian--Zhou (Calc.\ Var.\ Partial Differential Equations, 2022). The proof in that paper relies in an essential way on the two-dimensional structure and does not directly apply in higher dimensions, whereas here we develop a different approximation scheme and functional setting adapted to the high-dimensional sphere-at-infinity concentration regime.

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@article{arxiv.2512.10512,
  title  = {Asymptotic Sphere Concentration at Infinity for NLS with L^2 Constraint},
  author = {Qing Guo and Chongyang Tian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.10512},
  year   = {2025}
}

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31 pages

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