In this paper we consider the fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equation $$\varepsilon^{2s}(-Δ)^s v+ V(x) v= f(v), \quad x \in \mathbb{R}^N$$ where $s \in (0,1)$, $N \geq 2$, $V \in C(\mathbb{R}^N,\mathbb{R})$ is a positive potential and $f$ is a nonlinearity satisfying Berestycki-Lions type conditions. For $\varepsilon>0$ small, we prove the existence of at least $\rm{cupl}(K)+1$ positive solutions, where $K$ is a set of local minima in a bounded potential well and $\rm{cupl}(K)$ denotes the cup-length of $K$. By means of a variational approach, we analyze the topological difference between two levels of an indefinite functional in a neighborhood of expected solutions. Since the nonlocality comes in the decomposition of the space directly, we introduce a new fractional center of mass, via a suitable seminorm. Some other delicate aspects arise strictly related to the presence of the nonlocal operator. By using regularity results based on fractional De Giorgi classes, we show that the found solutions decay polynomially and concentrate around some point of $K$ for $\varepsilon$ small.
In this paper, we prove that the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with the fractional Laplacian on the unit disk is globally well-posed for certain radial initial data below the energy space. The result is proved by extending the I-method in the fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equation setting.
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.
We consider the mass critical fractional (NLS). We show the existence of travelling waves for all mass below the ground state mass, and give a complete description of the associated profiles in the small mass limit. We therefore recover a situation similar to the one discovered in [Gerard P.; Lenzmann E.; Pocovnicu O.; Raphaël, P., A two soliton with transient turbulent regime for the one dimensional cubic half wave, submitted] for the critical case s = 1, but with a completely different asymptotic profile when the mass vanishes.
We study the multiplicity and concentration of complex valued solutions for a fractional magnetic Schrödinger equation involving a scalar continuous electric potential satisfying a local condition and a continuous nonlinearity with subcritical growth. The main results are obtained by applying a penalization technique, generalized Nehari manifold method and Ljusternik-Schnirelman theory. We also prove a Kato's inequality for the fractional magnetic Laplacian which we believe to be useful in the study of other fractional magnetic problems.
The paper is devoted to the study of a singularly perturbed fractional Schrödinger equations involving critical frequency and critical growth in the presence of a magnetic field. By using variational methods, we obtain the existence of mountain pass solutions $u_{\varepsilon}$ which tend to the trivial solution as $\varepsilon\rightarrow0$. Moreover, we get infinitely many solutions and sign-changing solutions for the problem in absence of magnetic effects under some extra assumptions.
In this paper, we study normalized ground states for the following critical fractional NLS equation with prescribed mass: \begin{equation*} \begin{cases} (-Δ)^{s}u=λu +μ|u|^{q-2}u+|u|^{2_{s}^{\ast}-2}u,&x\in\mathbb{R}^{N}, \int_{\mathbb{R}^{N}}u^{2}dx=a^{2},\\ \end{cases} \end{equation*} where $(-Δ)^{s}$ is the fractional Laplacian, $0<s<1$, $N>2s$, $2<q<2_{s}^{\ast}=2N/(N-2s)$ is a fractional critical Sobolev exponent, $a>0$, $μ\in \mathbb{R}$. By using Jeanjean's trick in \cite{Jeanjean}, and the standard method which can be found in \cite{Brezis} to overcome the lack of compactness, we firs…
In this paper we prove local well-posedness of a space-time fractional generalization of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a power-type nonlinearity. The linear equation coincides with a model proposed by Naber, and displays a nonlocal behavior both in space and time which accounts for long-range interactions and a so-called memory effect. Because of a loss of derivatives produced by the latter and the lack of semigroup structure of the solution operator, we employ a strategy of proof based on exploiting some smoothing effect similar to that used by Kenig, Ponce and Vega for the KdV equa…
In this paper, our discussion mainly focuses on equations with energy supercritical nonlinearities. We establish probabilistic global well-posedness (GWP) results for the cubic Schrödinger equation with any fractional power of the Laplacian in all dimensions. We consider both low and high regularities in the radial setting, in dimension $\geq 2$. In the high regularity result, an {\it Inviscid - Infinite dimensional (IID) limit} is employed while in the low regularity global well-posedness result, we make use of the Skorokhod representation theorem. The IID limit is presented in details as an …
In this paper, we study ill-posedness of cubic fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equations. First, we consider the cubic nonlinear half-wave equation (NHW) on $\mathbb R$. In particular, we prove the following ill-posedness results: (i) failure of local uniform continuity of the solution map in $H^s(\mathbb R)$ for $s\in (0,\frac 12)$, and also for $s=0$ in the focusing case; (ii) failure of $C^3$-smoothness of the solution map in $L^2(\mathbb R)$; (iii) norm inflation and, in particular, failure of continuity of the solution map in $H^s(\mathbb R)$, $s<0$. By a similar argument, we also prove …
The aim of this note is to adapt the strategy in [4][See,B.Dodson, J.Murphy, a new proof of scattering below the ground state for the 3D radial focusing cubic NLS, arXiv:1611.04195 ] to prove the scattering of radial solutions below sharp threshold for certain focusing fractional NLS with cubic nonlinearity. The main ingredient is to apply the fractional virial identity proved in [11][See,T.Boulenger, D.Himmelsbach,E.Lenzmann, Blow up for fractional NLS,J.Func.Anal,271(2016),2569-2603] to exclude the concentration of mass near the origin.
We consider the Cauchy problem for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation $iu_t+ Δu+ λ|u|^αu=0$ in $\R^N $, in the $H^s$-subcritical and critical cases $0<α\le 4/(N-2s)$, where $0<s<N/2$. Local existence of solutions in $H^s$ is well known. However, even though the solution is constructed by a fixed-point technique, continuous dependence in $H^s$ does not follow from the contraction mapping argument. In this paper, assuming furthermore $s<1$, we show that the solution depends continuously on the initial value in the sense that the local flow is continuous $H^s \to H^s$. If, in addition, $α\ge 1$ t…
The uniqueness of the positive ground state solutions of fractional Shrodinger equations with a harmonic potential has not been covered by the breakthrough method developed in [1, 2]. It has remained an open question for years. [3] and [5] were quite recently able to prove the existence of the ground state solutions and to derive important properties but they failed to address the uniqueness. [3] left it as an open question, and [5] run numerical simulations that were in favor of the uniqueness. Very recently, the authors of this note developed a general and unified method to prove the uniquen…
In this paper we prove approximation properties of the solutions of the defoucsing NLS equation on the circle by nearly linear flows. In addition we show that spatially periodic solutions of the defocusing NLS equation evolving in fractional Sobolev spaces $H^s$ with $s\geq 1$ remain bounded for all times.
In this paper we study the cubic fractional nonlinear Schrodinger equation (NLS) on the torus and on the real line. Combining the normal form and the restricted norm methods we prove that the nonlinear part of the solution is smoother than the initial data. Our method applies to both focusing and defocusing nonlinearities. In the case of full dispersion (NLS) and on the torus, the gain is a full derivative, while on the real line we get a derivative smoothing with an $ε$ loss. Our result lowers the regularity requirement of a recent theorem of Kappeler et al. on the periodic defocusing cubic N…
In this paper, the sharp threshold of scattering for the fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the $L^2$-supercritical case is obtained, i.e., if $1+\frac{4s}{N}<p<1+\frac{4s}{N-2s}$, and $$ M[u_{0}]^{\frac{s-s_c}{s_c}}E[u_{0}]<M[Q]^{\frac{s-s_c}{s_c}}E[Q], \ M[u_{0}]^{\frac{s-s_c}{s_c}}\| u_{0}\|^2_{\dot H^s}<M[Q]^{\frac{s-s_c}{s_c}}\| Q\|^2_{\dot H^s}$$ then the solution $u(t)$ is globally well-posed and scatters. This condition is sharp in the sense that if $1+\frac{4s}{N}<p<1+\frac{4s}{N-2s}$ and $$ M[u_{0}]^{\frac{s-s_c}{s_c}}E[u_{0}]<M[Q]^{\frac{s-s_c}{s_c}}E[Q], \ M[u_{0}]^{\frac…
We consider fractional NLS with focusing power-type nonlinearity $$i \partial_t u = (-Δ)^s u - |u|^{2 σ} u, \quad (t,x) \in \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^N,$$ where $1/2< s < 1$ and $0 < σ< \infty$ for $s \geq N/2$ and $0 < σ\leq 2s/(N-2s)$ for $s < N/2$. We prove a general criterion for blowup of radial solutions in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with $N \geq 2$ for $L^2$-supercritical and $L^2$-critical powers $σ\geq 2s/N$. In addition, we study the case of fractional NLS posed on a bounded star-shaped domain $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^N$ in any dimension $N \geq 1$ and subject to exterior Dirichlet conditions. In…
We study the nonlinear Schrödinger equation posed on product spaces $\mathbf R^n\times \mathcal M^k$, for $n\geq 1$ and $k\geq1$, with $\mathcal M^k$ any $k$-dimensional compact Riemaniann manifold. The main results concern global well-posedness and scattering for small data solutions in non-isotropic Sobolev fractional spaces. In the particular case of $k=2$, $H^1$-scattering is also obtained.
We consider a general class of discrete nonlinear Schroedinger equations (DNLS) on the lattice $h \mathbb{Z}$ with mesh size $h>0$. In the continuum limit when $h \to 0$, we prove that the limiting dynamics are given by a nonlinear Schroedinger equation (NLS) on $\mathbb{R}$ with the fractional Laplacian $(-Δ)^α$ as dispersive symbol. In particular, we obtain that fractional powers $1/2 < α< 1$ arise from long-range lattice interactions when passing to the continuum limit, whereas NLS with the non-fractional Laplacian $-Δ$ describes the dispersion in the continuum limit for short-range lattice…
We review some recent results on the minimization of the energy associated to the nonlinear Schrödinger Equation on non-compact graphs. Starting from seminal results given by the author together with C. Cacciapuoti, D. Finco, and D. Noja for the star graphs, we illustrate the achiements attained for general graphs and the related methods, developed in collaboration with E. Serra and P. Tilli. We emphasize ideas and examples rather than computations or proofs.
In this paper, we are concerned with the multiplicity of nontrivial solutions for the following class of complex problems $$ (-i\nabla - A(μx))^{2}u= μ|u|^{q-2}u + |u|^{2^{*}-2}u \ \mbox{in} \ Ω, \ \ \ \ u \in H^{1}_{0}(Ω,\mathbb{C}), $$ where $Ω\subset \mathbb{R}^{N} (N \geq 4)$ is a bounded domain with smooth boundary. Using the Lusternik-Schnirelman theory, we relate the number of solutions with the topology of $Ω$.
In this note, we consider the ill-posedness issue for the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) on the circle. In particular, adapting the argument by Christ-Colliander-Tao [14] to the periodic setting, we exhibit a norm inflation phenomenon for both the usual cubic NLS and the Wick ordered cubic NLS for $s \leq s_\text{crit} :=- \frac 12$. We also discuss norm inflation phenomena for general cubic fractional NLS on the circle.
We study the Cauchy problem for the $1$-d periodic fractional Schrödinger equation with cubic nonlinearity. In particular we prove local well-posedness in Sobolev spaces, for solutions evolving from rough initial data. In addition we show the existence of global-in-time infinite energy solutions. Our tools include a new Strichartz estimate on the torus along with ideas that Bourgain developed in studying the periodic cubic NLS.
We consider the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with pure power nonlinearity on a general compact metric graph, and in particular its stationary solutions with fixed mass. Since the graph is compact, for every value of the mass there is a constant solution. Our scope is to analyze (in dependence of the mass) the variational properties of this solution, as a critical point of the energy functional: local and global minimality, and (orbital) stability. We consider both the subcritical regime and the critical one, in which the features of the graph become relevant. We describe how the above proper…
We consider the focusing fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equation \[ i\partial_t u - (-Δ)^s u = -|u|^αu, \quad (t,x) \in \mathbb{R}^+ \times \mathbb{R}^d, \] where $s \in (1/2,1)$ and $α>0$. By using localized virial estimates, we establish general blow-up criteria for non-radial solutions to the equation. As consequences, we obtain blow-up criteria in both $L^2$-critical and $L^2$-supercritical cases which extend the results of Boulenger-Himmelsbach-Lenzmann [{\it Blowup for fractional NLS}, J. Funct. Anal. 271 (2016), 2569--2603] for non-radial initial data.
We study the scattering problem for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation $i\partial_t u + Δu = |u|^p u$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\geq 1$, with a mass-subcritical nonlinearity above the Strauss exponent. For this equation, it is known that asymptotic completeness in $L^2$ with initial data in $Σ$ holds and the wave operator is well-defined on $Σ$. We show that there exists $0<β<p$ such that the wave operator and the data-to-scattering-state map do not admit extensions to maps $L^2\to L^2$ of class $C^{1+β}$ near the origin. This constitutes a mild form of ill-posedness for the scattering problem in t…
In this paper we give the complete classification of solitons for a cubic NLS equation on the simplest network with a non-trivial topology: the tadpole graph, i.e. a ring with a half-line attached to it and free boundary conditions at the junction. The model, although simple, exhibits a surprisingly rich behavior and in particular we show that it admits: 1) a denumerable family of continuous branches of embedded solitons bifurcating from linear eigenstates and threshold resonances of the system; 2) a continuous branch of edge solitons displaying a pitchfork symmetry breaking bifurcation at the…
We consider dispersion generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equations (NLS) of the form $i \partial_t u = P(D) u - |u|^{2 σ} u$, where $P(D)$ denotes a (pseudo)-differential operator of arbitrary order. As a main result, we prove symmetry results for traveling solitary waves in the case of powers $σ\in \mathbb{N}$. The arguments are based on Steiner type rearrangements in Fourier space. Our results apply to a broad class of NLS-type equations such as fourth-order (biharmonic) NLS, fractional NLS, square-root Klein-Gordon and half-wave equations.
We construct solutions with prescribed scattering state to the cubic-quintic NLS $$ (i\partial_t+Δ)ψ=α_1 ψ-α_{3}\vert ψ\vert^2 ψ+α_5\vert ψ\vert^4 ψ$$ in three spatial dimensions in the class of solutions with $|ψ(x)|\to c >0$ as $|x|\to\infty$. This models disturbances in an infinite expanse of (quantum) fluid in its quiescent state --- the limiting modulus $c$ corresponds to a local minimum in the energy density. Our arguments build on work of Gustafson, Nakanishi, and Tsai on the (defocusing) Gross--Pitaevskii equation. The presence of an energy-critical nonlinearity and changes in the geom…
We consider the question of global existence of small, smooth, and localized solutions of a certain fractional semilinear cubic NLS in one dimension, $$i\partial_t u - Λu = c_0{|u|}^2 u + c_1 u^3 + c_2 u \bar{u}^2 + c_3 \bar{u}^3, \qquad Λ= Λ(\partial_x) = {|\partial_x|}^(1/2)$$, where $c_0\in\mathbb{R}$ and $c_1,c_2,c_3\in\mathbb{C}$. This model is motivated by the two-dimensional water waves equations, which have a somewhat similar structure in the Eulerian formulation, in the case of irrotational flows. We show that one cannot expect linear scattering, even in this simplified model. More pr…
We consider the defocusing cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) on the two-dimensional torus. The equation admits a special family of elliptic invariant quasiperiodic tori called finite-gap solutions. These are inherited from the integrable 1D model (cubic NLS on the circle) by considering solutions that depend only on one variable. We study the long-time stability of such invariant tori for the 2D NLS model and show that, under certain assumptions and over sufficiently long timescales, they exhibit a strong form of transverse instability in Sobolev spaces $H^s(\mathbb{T}^2)$ ($0<s<1$). …
We study the two-dimensional periodic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) with the quadratic nonlinearity $|u|^2$. In particular, we study the quadratic NLS with random initial data distributed according to a fractional derivative (of order $α\geq 0$) of the Gaussian free field. After removing the singularity at the zeroth frequency, we prove that the quadratic NLS is almost surely locally well-posed for $α< \frac{1}{2}$ and is probabilistically ill-posed for $α\geq \frac{3}{4}$ in a suitable sense. These results show that in the case of rough random initial data and a quadratic nonlinearity,…
We consider the Cauchy problem for the inhomogeneous biharmonic nonlinear Schrödinger (IBNLS) equation \[iu_{t} +Δ^{2} u=λ|x|^{-b}|u|^σu,\;u(0)=u_{0} \in H^{s} (\mathbb R^{d}),\] where $λ\in \mathbb R$, $d\in \mathbb N$, $0\le s<\min\left\{2+\frac{d}{2},d\right\}$, $0<b<\min \left\{4,\; d-s,\; 2+\frac{d}{2}-s \right\}$ and $0<σ\le σ_{c}(s)$ with $σ<\infty$. Here $σ_{c}(s)=\frac{8-2b}{d-2s}$ if $s<\frac{d}{2}$, and $σ_{c}(s)=\infty$ if $s\ge \frac{d}{2}$. First, we give some remarks on Sobolev-Lorentz spaces and extend the chain rule under Lorentz norms for the fractional Laplacian $(-Δ)^{s/2}$…
We prove existence of multiple positive solutions for a {\sl fractional scalar field equation} in a bounded domain, whenever $p$ tends to the critical Sobolev exponent. By means of the "photography method", we prove that the topology of the domain furnishes a lower bound on the number of positive solutions.
We consider the following fractional NLS with focusing inhomogeneous power-type nonlinearity $$i\partial_t u -(-Δ)^s u + |x|^{-b}|u|^{p-1}u=0,\quad (t,x)\in \mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^N,$$ where $N\geq 2$, $1/2<s<1$, $0<b<2s$ and $1+\frac{2(2s-b)}{N}<p<1+\frac{2(2s-b)}{N-2s}$. We prove the ground state threshold of global existence and scattering versus finite time blow-up of energy solutions in the inter-critical regime with spherically symmetric initial data. The scattering is proved by the new approach of Dodson-Murphy ({Proc. Am. Math. Soc.} {145}: {4859--4867}, 2017). This method is base…
This paper is devoted to study a fractional Choquard problem with slightly subcritical exponents on bounded domains. When the exponent of the convolution type nonlinearity tends to the fractional critical one in the sense of Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev inequality, we obtain the existence of multiple positive solutions via Lusternik-Schnirelmann category and nonlocal global compactness. Moreover, we prove that the topology of the domain furnishes a lower bound for the number of positive solutions.
This paper is devoted to the inverse problem of determining the spatially dependent source in a time fractional diffusion-wave equation, with the aid of extra measurement data at subboundary. Uniqueness result is obtained by using the analyticity and the new established unique continuation principle provided that the coefficients are all temporally independent. We also derive a Lipschitz stability of our inverse source problem under a suitable topology whose norm is given via the adjoint system of the fractional diffusion-wave equation.
In this paper we establish the multiplicity of nontrivial weak solutions for the problem $(-Δ)^α u +u= h(u)$ in $Ω_λ$,\ $u=0$ on $\partialΩ_λ$, where $Ω_λ=λΩ$, $Ω$ is a smooth and bounded domain in $\mathbb{R}^N, N>2α$, $λ$ is a positive parameter, $α\in (0,1)$, $(-Δ)^α$ is the fractional Laplacian and the nonlinear term $h(u)$ has a subcritical growth. We use minimax methods, the Ljusternick-Schnirelmann and Morse theories to get multiplicity result depending on the topology of $Ω$.
When a solution to the Cauchy problem for nonlinear dispersive equations is obtained by a fixed point argument using auxiliary function spaces, it is non-trivial to ensure uniqueness of solutions in a natural space such as the class of continuous curves in the data space. This property is called unconditional uniqueness, and proving it often requires some additional work. In the last decade, unconditional uniqueness has been shown for some canonical nonlinear dispersive equations by an integration-by-parts technique, which can be regarded as a variant of the (Poincaré-Dulac) normal form reduct…
