Higher order expansion for the probabilistic local well-posedness theory for a cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation

Abstract

In this paper, we study the probabilistic local well-posedness of the cubic Schr\"odinger equation (cubic NLS): \[ (i\partial_{t} + \Delta) u = \pm |u|^{2} u \text{ on } [0,T) \times \mathbb{R}^{d}, \] with initial data being a Wiener randomization at unit scale of a given function $f$. We prove that a solution exists almost-surely locally in time provided \(f\in H^{S}_{x}(\mathbb{R}^{d})\) with \(S>\max\big(\frac{d-3}{4},\frac{d-4}{2}\big)\) for \(d\geq 3\). In particular, we establish that the local well-posedness holds for any \(S>0\) when \(d=3\). We also show that, under appropriate smallness conditions for the initial data, the solutions are global in time and scatter. The solutions are constructed as a sum of an explicit multilinear expansion of the flow in terms of the random initial data and of an additional smoother remainder term with deterministically subcritical regularity. This construction allows us to introduce a new and refined notion of graded scattering. We develop the framework of directional space-time norms to control the (probabilistic) multilinear expansion and the (deterministic) remainder term and to obtain improved bilinear probabilistic-deterministic Strichartz estimates.