Continuous dependence of the Cauchy problem for the inhomogeneous biharmonic NLS equation in Sobolev spaces

Abstract

In this paper, we study the continuous dependence of the Cauchy problem for the inhomogeneous biharmonic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (IBNLS) equation \[iu_{t} +\Delta^{2} u=\lambda |x|^{-b}|u|^{\sigma}u,~u(0)=u_{0} \in H^{s} (\mathbb R^{d}),\] in the standard sense in $H^s$, i.e. in the sense that the local solution flow is continuous $H^s\to H^s$. Here $d\in \mathbb N$, $s>0$, $\lambda\in \mathbb R$ and $\sigma>0$. To arrive at this goal, we first obtain the estimates of the term $f(u)-f(v)$ in the fractional Sobolev spaces which generalize the similar results of An-Kim [5](2021) and Dinh [16](2018), where $f(u)$ is a nonlinear function that behaves like $\lambda |u|^{\sigma}u$ with $\lambda\in \mathbb R$. These estimates are then applied to obtain the standard continuous dependence result for IBNLS equation with $0<s <\min \{2+\frac{d}{2},\frac{3}{2}d\}$, $0<b<\min\{4,d,\frac{3}{2}d-s,\frac{d}{2}+2-s\}$ and $0<\sigma< \sigma_{c}(s)$, where $\sigma_{c}(s)=\frac{8-2b}{d-2s}$ if $s<\frac{d}{2}$, and $\sigma_{c}(s)=\infty$ if $s\ge \frac{d}{2}$. Our continuous dependence result generalizes that of Liu-Zhang [27](2021) by extending the validity of $s$ and $b$.