Nondispersive radial solutions to energy supercritical non-linear wave equations, with applications
Carlos E. Kenig, Frank Merle
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The new version fixes an error (pointed out by Chengbo Wang) in an incorrect use of the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality or radial functions, in the previous version of the paper. The main results in the paper remain unchanged. In addition,we have provided additional comments and corrected some misprints
In this paper we establish optimal pointwise decay estimates for non-dispersive (compact) radial solutions to non-linear wave equations in 3 dimensions, in the energy supercritical range. As an application, we show for the full energy supercritical range, in the defocusing case, that if the scale invariant Sobolev norm of a radial solution remains bounded in its maximal interval of existence, then the solution must exist for all times and scatter.
We consider the radial defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equations $iu_t+Δu=|u|^{p}u$ with supercritical exponent $p>4$ in four space dimensions, and prove that any radial solution that remains bounded in the critical Sobolev space must be global and scatter.
We prove the existence of a positive radial solution for the Hénon equation with arbitrary growth. The solution is found by means of a shooting method and turns out to be an increasing function of the radial variable. Some numerical experiments suggest the existence of many positive oscillating solutions.
Consider the positive, radial solutions of the nonlinear biharmonic equation $Δ^2 u = u^p$. There is a critical power $p_c$ such that solutions are linearly stable if and only if $p\geq p_c$. We obtain their asymptotic expansion at infinity in the case that $p\geq p_c$.
In this paper we study the Neumann problem\begin{equation*}\begin{cases}-Δu+u=u^p \& \text{ in }B\_1 \\u \textgreater{} 0, \& \text{ in }B\_1 \\\partial\_νu=0 \& \text{ on } \partial B\_1,\end{cases}\end{equation*}and we show the existence of multiple-layer radial solutions as $p\rightarrow+\infty$.
In this work, we consider the energy-supercritical defocusing cubic nonlinear wave equation in dimension d=5 for radially symmetric initial data. We prove that an a priori bound in the critical space implies global well-posedness and scattering. The main tool that we use is a frequency localized version of the classical Morawetz inequality, inspired by recent developments in the study of the mass and energy critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation.
We prove scattering of $\tilde{H}^{k} $ solutions of the loglog energy-supercritical Schrodinger equation $i \partial_{t} u + \triangle u = |u|^{\frac{4}{n-2}} u \log^{c} {(\log{(10+|u|^{2})})}$, $0 < c < c_{n}$, $n={3,4}$, with radial data $u(0):=u_{0} \in \tilde{H}^{k} $, $k>n/2$. This is achieved, roughly speaking, by extending Bourgain's argument (see also Grillakis) and Tao's argument in high dimensions.
Given $n \in \{ 3,4,5 \}$ and $k > 1$ (resp. $\frac{4}{3} > k > 1$) if $n \in \{ 3,4 \}$ (resp. $n=5$), we prove scattering of the radial $\tilde{H}^{k}:= \dot{H}^{k}(\mathbb{R}^{n}) \cap \dot{H}^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$ solutions of a focusing size-dependent log energy-supercritical Schrodinger equation for critical energies below that of the ground states, and for critical potential energies below that of the ground states.
Given $n \in \{ 3,4 \}$ (resp. $n=5$) and $k > 1$ (resp. $\frac{4}{3} > k > 1$), we prove scattering of the radial $\tilde{H}^{k}:= \dot{H}^{k}(\mathbb{R}^{n}) \cap \dot{H}^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$ solutions of the loglog energy-supercritical Schrodinger equation $i \partial_{t} u + \triangle u = |u|^{\frac{4}{n-2}}u log^γ (\log( 10 + |u|^{2} ))$ for $0 < γ< γ_{n}$. In order to control the barely supercritical nonlinearity for nonsmooth solutions, i.e solutions with data in $\tilde{H}^{k}$, $k \leq \frac{n}{2}$, we prove some Jensen-type inequalities.
In this paper, we consider the wave equation in space dimension 3 with an energy-supercritical, focusing nonlinearity. We show that any radial solution of the equation which is bounded in the critical Sobolev space is globally defined and scatters to a linear solution. As a consequence, finite time blow-up solutions have critical Sobolev norm converging to infinity (along some sequence of times). The proof relies on the compactness/rigidity method, pointwise estimates on compact solutions obtained by the two last authors, and channels of energy arguments used by the authors in previous works o…
We consider the wave equation in space dimension $3$, with an energy-supercritical nonlinearity which can be either focusing or defocusing. For any radial solution of the equation, with positive maximal time of existence $T$, we prove that one of the following holds: (i) the norm of the solution in the critical Sobolev space goes to infinity as $t$ goes to $T$, or (ii) $T$ is infinite and the solution scatters to a linear solution forward in time. We use a variant of the channel of energy method, relying on a generalized $L^p$-energy which is almost conserved by the flow of the radial linear w…
We consider the defocusing nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-Δu + |u|^p u=0$ with spherically-symmetric initial data in the regime $\frac4{d-2}<p<\frac4{d-3}$ (which is energy-supercritical) and dimensions $3\leq d\leq 6$; we also consider $d\geq 7$, but for a smaller range of $p>\frac4{d-2}$. The principal result is that blowup (or failure to scatter) must be accompanied by blowup of the critical Sobolev norm. An equivalent formulation is that maximal-lifespan solutions with bounded critical Sobolev norm are global and scatter.
This paper deals with existence and multiplicity of positive solutions for a quasilinear problem with Neumann boundary conditions, set in a ball. The problem admits at least one constant non-zero solution and it involves a nonlinearity that can be supercritical in the sense of Sobolev embeddings. The main tools used are variational techniques and the shooting method for ODE's. These results are contained in [6,3].
In this paper, we are concerned with solutions to the Cauchy problem for Chern-Simons-Schrödinger equations in the mass supercritical case. First we establish the local well-posedness of solutions in the radial space. Then we consider scattering versus blow-up dichotomy for radial data below the ground state threshold.
We introduce a novel data randomisation for the free wave equation which leads to the same range of Strichartz estimates as for radial data, albeit in a non-radial context. We then use these estimates to establish global well-posedness for a wave maps type nonlinear wave equation for certain supercritical data, provided the data are suitably small and randomised.
We consider the semilinear heat equation in large dimension $d\geq 11$ $$ \partial_t u =Δu+|u| ^{p-1}u, \ \ p=2q+1, \ \ q\in \mathbb N $$ on a smooth bounded domain $Ω\subset \mathbb R^d$ with Dirichlet boundary condition. In the supercritical range $p\geq p(d)>1+\frac{4}{d-2}$ we prove the existence of a countable family $(u_\ell)_{\ell \in \mathbb N}$ of solutions blowing-up at time $T>0$ with type II blow up: $$ \parallel u_{\ell}(t) \parallel_{L^{\infty}} \sim C (T-t)^{-c_\ell} $$ with blow-up speed $c_\ell>\frac{1}{p-1}$. They concentrate the ground state $Q$ being the only radially and d…
We consider radial solutions of a mass supercritical monic NLS and we prove the existence of a set, which looks like a hypersurface, in the space of finite energy functions, invariant for the flow and formed by solutions which converge to ground states.
We consider the energy-supercritical nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-Δu+|u|^2u=0$ with defocusing cubic nonlinearity in dimension $d=5$ with no radial assumption on the initial data. We prove that a uniform-in-time {\it a priori} bound on the critical norm implies that solutions exist globally in time and scatter at infinity in both time directions. Together with our earlier works in dimensions $d\geq 6$ with general data and dimension $d=5$ with radial data, the present work completes the study of global well-posedness and scattering in the energy-supercritical regime for the cubic nonlineari…
We consider the semilinear heat equation $u_t=Δu+u^p$ on ${\mathbb R}^N$. Assuming that $N\ge 3$ and $p$ is greater than the Sobolev critical exponent $(N+2)/(N-2)$, we examine entire solutions (classical solutions defined for all $t\in {\mathbb R}$) and ancient solutions (classical solutions defined on $(-\infty,T)$ for some $T<\infty$). We prove a new Liouville-type theorem saying that if $p$ is greater than the Lepin exponent $p_L:=1+6/(N-10)$ ($p_L=\infty$ if $N\le 10$), then all positive bounded radial entire solutions are steady states. The theorem is not valid without the assumption of …
We are interested in the structure of the positive radial solutions of the supercritical Neumann problem $\varepsilon^2Δu-u+u^p=0$ on a unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^N$ , where $N$ is the spatial dimension and $p>p_S:=(N+2)/(N-2)$, $N\ge 3$. We show that there exists a sequence $\{\varepsilon_n^*\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ ($\varepsilon_1^*>\varepsilon_2^*>\cdots\rightarrow 0$) such that this problem has infinitely many singular solutions $\{(\varepsilon_n^*,U_n^*)\}_{n=1}^{\infty}\subset\mathbb{R}\times (C^2(0,1)\cap C^1(0,1])$ and that the nonconstant regular solutions consist of infinitely many smooth cu…
We establish existence of positive non-decreasing radial solutions for a nonlocal nonlinear Neumann problem both in the ball and in the annulus. The nonlinearity that we consider is rather general, allowing for supercritical growth (in the sense of Sobolev embedding). The consequent lack of compactness can be overcome, by working in the cone of non-negative and non-decreasing radial functions. Within this cone, we establish some a priori estimates which allow, via a truncation argument, to use variational methods for proving existence of solutions. As a side result, we prove a strong maximum p…
We study radial solutions of the semilinear elliptic equation $Δu+f(u)=0$ under rather general growth conditions on $f$. We construct a radial singular solution and study the intersection number between the singular solution and a regular solution. An application to bifurcation problems of elliptic Dirichlet problems is given. To this end, we derive a certain limit equation from the original equation at infinity, using a generalized similarity transformation. Through a generalized Cole-Hopf transformation, all the limit equations can be reduced into two typical cases, i.e., $Δu+u^p=0$ and $Δu+…
In this paper we deal with the equation \[-Δ_p u+|u|^{p-2}u=|u|^{q-2}u\] for $1<p<2$ and $q>p$, under Neumann boundary conditions in the unit ball of $\mathbb R^N$. We focus on the three positive, radial, and radially non-decreasing solutions, whose existence for $q$ large is proved in [13]. We detect the limit profile as $q\to\infty$ of the higher energy solution and show that, unlike the minimal energy one, it converges to the constant $1$. The proof requires several tools borrowed from the theory of minimization problems and accurate a priori estimates of the solutions, which are of indepen…
We investigate the existence of solutions to the fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equation $(-Δ)^s u = f(u)$ with prescribed $L^2$-norm $\int_{\mathbb{R}^N} |u|^2 \, dx =m$ in the Sobolev space $H^s(\mathbb{R}^N)$. Under fairly general assumptions on the nonlinearity $f$, we prove the existence of a ground state solution and a multiplicity result in the radially symmetric case.
The nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-Δu +|u_t|^{p-1}u_t=0$ is shown to be globally well-posed in the Sobolev spaces of radially symmetric functions $H^k_{\rm rad}({\bf R}^3)\times H^{k-1}_{\rm rad}({\bf R}^3)$ for all $p\geq 3$ and $k\geq 3$. Moreover, global $C^\infty $ solutions are obtained when the initial data are $C_0^\infty$ and exponent $p$ is an odd integer. The radial symmetry allows a reduction to the one-dimensional case where an important observation of A. Haraux (2009) can be applied, i.e., dissipative nonlinear wave equations contract initial data in $W^{k,q}({\bf R})\times W^{k-…
For $p>2$, we consider the quasilinear equation $-Δ_p u+|u|^{p-2}u=g(u)$ in the unit ball $B$ of $\mathbb R^N$, with homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. The assumptions on $g$ are very mild and allow the nonlinearity to be possibly supercritical in the sense of Sobolev embeddings. We prove the existence of a nonconstant, positive, radially nondecreasing solution via variational methods. In the case $g(u)=|u|^{q-2}u$, we detect the asymptotic behavior of these solutions as $q\to\infty$.
In this paper we prove that the cubic wave equation is globally well - posed and scattering for radial initial data lying in a slightly supercritical Sobolev space, and a weighted Sobolev space.
We prove the existence of global solutions to the energy-supercritical wave equation in R^{3+1} u_{tt}-Δu + |u|^N u = 0, u(0) = u_0, u_t(0) = u_1, 4<N<\infty, for a large class of radially symmetric finite-energy initial data. Functions in this class are characterized as being outgoing under the linear flow --- for a specific meaning of "outgoing" defined below. In particular, we construct global solutions for initial data with large (even infinite) critical Sobolev, Besov, Lebesgue, and Lorentz norms and several other large critical norms.
We construct positive solutions of the semilinear elliptic problem $Δu+ λu + u^p = 0$ with Dirichet boundary conditions, in a bounded smooth domain $Ω\subset \R^N$ $(N\geq 4)$, when the exponent $p$ is supercritical and close enough to $\frac{N+2}{N-2}$ and the parameter $λ\in\R$ is small enough. As $p\to \frac{N+2}{N-2}$, the solutions have multiple blow up at finitely many points which are the critical points of a function whose definition involves Green's function. Our result extends the result of Del Pino, Dolbeault and Musso \cite{DDM} when $Ω$ is a ball and the solutions are radially sym…
In this paper, we consider the defocusing cubic nonlinear wave equation $u_{tt}-Δu+|u|^2u=0$ in the energy-supercritical regime, in dimensions $d\geq 6$, with no radial assumption on the initial data. We prove that if a solution satisfies an a priori bound in the critical homogeneous Sobolev space throughout its maximal interval of existence, that is, $u\in L_t^\infty(\dot{H}_x^{s_c}\times\dot{H}_x^{s_c-1})$, then the solution is global and it scatters. Our analysis is based on the methods of the recent works of Kenig-Merle \cite{KenigMerleSupercritical} and Killip-Visan \cite{KillipVisanSuper…
We construct radially symmetric self-similar blow-up profiles for the mass supercritical nonlinear Schrödinger equation $i\partial_t u + Δu + |u|^{p-1}u=0$ on $\mathbf{R}^d$, close to the mass critical case and for any space dimension $d\ge 1$. These profiles bifurcate from the ground state solitary wave. The argument relies on the classical matched asymptotics method suggested in [Sulem, C.; Sulem, P.-L., The nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Self-focusing and wave collapse. Applied Mathematical Sciences, 139. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999] which needs to be applied in a degenerate case due t…
We consider the focusing $\dot H^{s_c}$-critical biharmonic Schrödinger equation, and prove a global wellposedness and scattering result for the radial data $u_0\in H^2(\mathbb R^N)$ satisfying $ M(u_0)^{\frac{2-s_c}{s_c}}E(u_0)<M(Q)^{\frac{2-s_c}{s_c}}E(Q) $ and $ \|u_{0}\|^{\frac{2-s_c}{s_c}}_{2}\|Δu_{0}\|_{2}<\|Q\|^{\frac{2-s_c}{s_c}}_{2}\|ΔQ\|_{2}, $ where $s_c\in(0,2)$ and $Q$ is the ground state of $Δ^2Q+(2-s_c)Q-|Q|^{p-1}Q=0$.
We consider the mixed problem on the exterior of the unit ball in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$, $n\ge2$, for a defocusing Schrödinger equation with a power nonlinearity $|u|^{p-1}u$, with zero boundary data. Assuming that the initial data are non radial, sufficiently small perturbations of \emph{large} radial initial data, we prove that for all powers $p>n+6$ the solution exists for all times, its Sobolev norms do not inflate, and the solution is unique in the energy class.
We look for nonconstant, positive, radially nondecreasing solutions of the quasilinear equation $-Δ_p u+u^{p-1}=f(u)$ with $p>2$, in the unit ball $B$ of $\mathbb R^N$, subject to homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions. The assumptions on the nonlinearity $f$ are very mild and allow it to be possibly supercritical in the sense of Sobolev embeddings. The main tools used are the truncation method and a mountain pass-type argument. In the pure power case, i.e., $f(u)=u^{q-1}$, we detect the limit profile of the solutions of the problems as $q\to\infty$.
For the radial energy-supercritical nonlinear wave equation $$\Box u = -u_{tt} + \triangle u = \pm u^7$$ on $\R^{3+1}$, we prove the existence of a class of global in forward time $C^\infty$-smooth solutions with infinite critical Sobolev norm $\dot{H}^{\frac{7}{6}}(\R^3)\times \dot{H}^{\f16}(\R^3)$. Moreover, these solutions are stable under suitably small perturbations . We also show that for the {\em defocussing} energy supercritical wave equation, we can construct such solutions which moreover satisfy the size condition $\|u(0, \cdot)\|_{L_x^\infty(|x|\geq 1)}>M$ for arbitrarily prescribed…
We study the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation in three space dimensions. We prove that any radial solution that remains bounded in the critical Sobolev space must be global and scatter. In the energy-supercritical setting, we employ a space-localized Lin--Strauss Morawetz inequality of Bourgain. In the inter-critical regime, we prove long-time Strichartz estimates and frequency-localized Lin--Strauss Morawetz inequalities.
We revisit the problem of scattering below the ground state threshold for the mass-supercritical focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation in two space dimensions. We present a simple new proof that treats the case of radial initial data. The key ingredient is a localized virial/Morawetz estimate; the radial assumption aids in controlling the error terms resulting from the spatial localization.
In this paper we discuss global well - posedness and scattering for some initial value problems that are $L^{2}$ supercritical and $\dot{H}^{1}$ subcritical, with radial data. We prove global well - posedness and scattering for radial data in $H^{s}$, $s > s_{c}$, where the problem is $\dot{H}^{s_{c}}$ - critical. We make use of the long time Strichartz estimates of \cite{D2} to do this.
In this paper we study radial solutions of certain two-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with harmonic potential, which is supercritical with respect to the initial data. By combining the nonlinear smoothing effect of Schr ödinger equation with Lp estimates of Laguerre functions, we are able to prove an almost sure global well-posedness result and the invariance of the Gibbs measure. We also discuss an application to the NLS equation without harmonic potential.
In this paper, we study the existence of solutions to the mixed dispersion nonlinear Schrödinger equation $$ γΔ^2 u -Δu + αu=|u|^{2 σ} u, \quad u \in H^2(\R^N), $$ under the constraint $$ \int_{\R^N}|u|^2 \, dx =c>0. $$ We assume $γ>0, N \geq 1, 4 \leq σN < \frac{4N}{(N-4)^+}$, whereas the parameter $α\in \R$ will appear as a Lagrange multiplier. Given $c \in \R^+$, we consider several questions including the existence of ground states, of positive solutions and the multiplicity of radial solutions. We also discuss the stability of the standing waves of the associated dispersive equation.
We consider the defocusing energy-critical NLS in the exterior of the unit ball in three dimensions. For the initial value problem with Dirichlet boundary condition we prove global well-posedness and scattering with large radial initial data in the Sobolev space $\dot H_0^1$. We also point out that the same strategy can be used to treat the energy-supercritical NLS in the exterior of balls with Dirichlet boundary condition and radial $\dot H_0^1$ initial data.
We consider the non linear focusing wave equation $\partial_{tt}u-Δu-u|u|^{p-1}=0$ in large dimensions and for radially symmetric data, in the energy supercritical zone for p large enough. We construct finite time blow up solutions that concentrate the soliton profile $u \sim \frac{1}{λ^{\frac{2}{p-1}}}Q (\frac{r} λ)$, $Q$ being a special stationary state of the equation. The blow up is of type II i.e all norms below scaling remain bounded. The scale shrinks at quantized blow up rates: we exhibit a countable family of asymptotic behaviors near blow up time for the scale lambda. For each rate w…
We are concerned with solutions to the nonlinear heat equation $u_t=Δu+|u|^{p-1}u$, $x\in \mathbb{R}^N$, that are defined for all positive and negative time. If the exponent $p$ is greater or equal to the Joseph-Lundgren exponent $p_c$ and $|u|$ stays below some positive radially symmetric steady state, under a mild condition on the behaviour of $u$ as $|x|\to \infty$, we show that $u$ is independent of time. Our method of proof uses Serrin's sweeping principle, based on the strong maximum principle, applied to the linearized equation for $u_t$. Our result covers that of Poláčik and Yanagida […
