On instability of radial standing waves for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with inverse-square potential

Abstract

We show the strong instability of radial ground state standing waves for the focusing $L^2$-supercritical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with inverse-square potential \[ i\partial_t u + \Delta u + c|x|^{-2} u = - |u|^{\alpha} u, \quad (t,x)\in \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^d, \] where $d\geq 3$, $u: \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^d \rightarrow \mathbb{C}$, $c\ne 0$ satisfies $c<\lambda(d):=\left(\frac{d-2}{2}\right)^2$ and $\frac{4}{d} <\alpha<\frac{4}{d-2}$. This result extends a recent result of Bensouilah-Dinh-Zhu [{\it On stability and instability of standing waves for the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with inverse-square potential}, \url{arXiv:1805.01245}] where the stability and instability of standing waves were shown in the $L^2$-subcritical and $L^2$-critical cases.