On scattering for two-dimensional quintic Schrödinger equation under partial harmonic confinement

Abstract

In this article, we study the scattering theory for the two dimensional defocusing quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation(NLS) with partial harmonic oscillator which is given by \begin{align}\label{NLS-abstract} \begin{cases}\tag{PHNLS} i\partial_tu+(\partial_{x_1}^2+\partial_{x_2}^2)u-x_2^2u=|u|^4u,&(t,x_1,x_2)\in\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R},\\ u(0,x_1,x_2)=u_0(x_1,x_2). \end{cases} \end{align} First, we establish the linear profile decomposition for the Schrödinger operator $e^{it(\partial_{x_1}^2+\partial_{x_2}^2-x_2^2)}$ by utilizing the classical linear profile decomposition associated with the Schrödinger equation in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$. Then, applying the normal form technique, we approximate the nonlinear profiles using solutions of the new-type quintic dispersive continuous resonant (DCR) system. This allows us to employ the concentration-compactness/rigidity argument introduced by Kenig and Merle in our setting and prove scattering for equation (PHNLS) in the weighted Sobolev space. The second part of this paper is dedicated to proving the scattering theory for this mass-critical (DCR) system. Inspired by Dodson's seminal work [B. Dodson, Amer. J. Math. 138 (2016), 531-569], we develop long-time Strichartz estimates associated with the spectral projection operator $Π_n$, along with low-frequency localized Morawetz estimates, to address the challenges posed by the Galilean transformation and spatial translation.