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Justin Holmer

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arXiv2008

Breathing patterns in nonlinear relaxation

In numerical experiments involving nonlinear solitary waves propagating through nonhomogeneous media one observes "breathing" in the sense of the amplitude of the wave going up and down on a much faster scale than the motion of the wave. In this paper we investigate this phenomenon in the simplest case of stationary waves in which the evolution corresponds to relaxation to a nonlinear ground state. The particular model is the popular $ δ_0 $ impurity in the cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation on the line. We give asymptotics of the amplitude on a finite but relevant time interval and show their remarkable agreement with numerical experiments. We stress the nonlinear origin of the "breathing patterns" caused by the selection of the ground state depending on the initial data, and by the non-normality of the linearized operator.

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arXiv2008

A sharp condition for scattering of the radial 3d cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation

We consider the problem of identifying sharp criteria under which radial $H^1$ (finite energy) solutions to the focusing 3d cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) $i\partial_t u + Δu + |u|^2u=0$ scatter, i.e. approach the solution to a linear Schrödinger equation as $t\to \pm \infty$. The criteria is expressed in terms of the scale-invariant quantities $\|u_0\|_{L^2}\|\nabla u_0\|_{L^2}$ and $M[u]E[u]$, where $u_0$ denotes the initial data, and $M[u]$ and $E[u]$ denote the (conserved in time) mass and energy of the corresponding solution $u(t)$. The focusing NLS possesses a soliton solution $e^{it}Q(x)$, where $Q$ is the ground-state solution to a nonlinear elliptic equation, and we prove that if $M[u]E[u] \|Q\|_{L^2}\|\nabla Q\|_{L^2}$, then the solution blows-up in finite time. The technique employed is parallel to that employed by Kenig-Merle \cite{KM06a} in their study of the energy-critical NLS.

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arXiv2007

Scattering for the non-radial 3D cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation

Scattering of radial $H^1$ solutions to the 3D focusing cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation below a mass-energy threshold $M[u]E[u] < M[Q]E[Q]$ and satisfying an initial mass-gradient bound $\|u_0\|_{L^2} \|\nabla u_0 \|_{L^2} < \|Q\|_{L^2} \|\nabla Q\|_{L^2}$, where $Q$ is the ground state, was established in Holmer-Roudenko (2007). In this note, we extend the result in Holmer-Roudenko (2007) to non-radial $H^1$ data. For this, we prove a non-radial profile decomposition involving a spatial translation parameter. Then, in the spirit of Kenig-Merle (2006), we control via momentum conservation the rate of divergence of the spatial translation parameter and by a convexity argument based on a local virial identity deduce scattering. An application to the defocusing case is also mentioned.

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arXiv2007

Soliton interaction with slowly varying potentials

We study the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a slowly varying smooth potential, $V(x) = W(hx)$. We show that up to time $\log(1/h)/h $ and errors of size $h^2$ in $H^1$, the solution is a soliton evolving according to the classical dynamics of a natural effective Hamiltonian, $ (ξ^2 + \sech^2 * V (x))/2 $. This provides an improvement ($ h \to h^2 $) compared to previous works, and is strikingly confirmed by numerical simulations.

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arXiv2007

Slow soliton interaction with delta impurities

We study the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a delta function potential, $ q δ_0 $, where $|q|$ is small, and analyze the solutions for which the initial condition is a soliton with initial velocity $v_0$. We show that up to time $ (|q| + v_0^2)^{-\frac12} \log(1/|q|) $ the bulk of the solution is a soliton evolving according to the classical dynamics of a natural effective Hamiltonian, $ (ξ^2 + q \sech^2 (x))/2 $.

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arXiv2007

On blow-up solutions to the 3D cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation

For the 3d cubic nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation, which has critical (scaling) norms $L^3$ and $\dot H^{1/2}$, we first prove a result establishing sufficient conditions for global existence and sufficient conditions for finite-time blow-up. For the rest of the paper, we focus on the study of finite-time radial blow-up solutions, and prove a result on the concentration of the $L^3$ norm at the origin. Two disparate possibilities emerge, one which coincides with solutions typically observed in numerical experiments that consist of a specific bump profile with maximum at the origin and focus toward the origin at rate $\sim(T-t)^{1/2}$, where $T>0$ is the blow-up time. For the other possibility, we propose the existence of ``contracting sphere blow-up solutions'', i.e. those that concentrate on a sphere of radius $\sim (T-t)^{1/3}$, but focus towards this sphere at a faster rate $\sim (T-t)^{2/3}$. These conjectured solutions are analyzed through heuristic arguments and shown (at this level of precision) to be consistent with all conservation laws of the equation.

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arXiv2006

Local ill-posedness of the 1D Zakharov system

Ginibre-Tsutsumi-Velo (1997) proved local well-posedness for the Zakharov system for any dimension $d$, in the inhomogeneous Sobolev spaces $(u,n)\in H^k(\mathbb{R}^d)\times H^s(\mathbb{R}^d)$ for a range of exponents $k$, $s$ depending on $d$. Here we restrict to dimension $d=1$ and present a few results establishing local ill-posedness for exponent pairs $(k,s)$ outside of the well-posedness regime. The techniques employed are rooted in the work of Bourgain (1993), Birnir-Kenig-Ponce-Svanstedt-Vega (1996), and Christ-Colliander-Tao (2003) applied to the nonlinear Schroedinger equation.

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arXiv2006

Soliton splitting by external delta potentials

We show that a soliton scattered by an external delta potential splits into two solitons and a radiation term. Theoretical analysis gives the amplitudes and phases of the reflected and transmitted solitons with errors going to zero as the velocity of the incoming soliton tends to infinity. Numerical analysis shows that this asymptotic relation is valid for all but very slow solitons. We also show that the total transmitted mass, that is the square of the $L^2$ norm of the solution restricted on the transmitted side of the delta potential is in good agreement with the quantum transmission rate of the delta potential. This paper is a numerical companion to our analytical paper on the same topic, "Fast soliton scattering by delta impurities," math.AP/0602187.

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arXiv2006

Fast soliton scattering by delta impurities

We study the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (nonlinear Schroedinger equation) with a repulsive delta function potential. We show that a high velocity incoming soliton is split into a transmitted component and a reflected component. The transmitted mass (L^2 norm squared) is shown to be in good agreement with the quantum transmission rate of the delta function potential. We further show that the transmitted and reflected components resolve into solitons plus dispersive radiation, and quantify the mass and phase of these solitons.

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arXiv2006

Low regularity global well-posedness for the Zakharov and Klein-Gordon-Schrödinger systems

We prove low-regularity global well-posedness for the 1d Zakharov system and 3d Klein-Gordon-Schrödinger system, which are systems in two variables $u:\mathbb{R}_x^d\times \mathbb{R}_t \to \mathbb{C}$ and $n:\mathbb{R}^d_x\times \mathbb{R}_t\to \mathbb{R}$. The Zakharov system is known to be locally well-posed in $(u,n)\in L^2\times H^{-1/2}$ and the Klein-Gordon-Schrödinger system is known to be locally well-posed in $(u,n)\in L^2\times L^2$. Here, we show that the Zakharov and Klein-Gordon-Schrödinger systems are globally well-posed in these spaces, respectively, by using an available conservation law for the $L^2$ norm of $u$ and controlling the growth of $n$ via the estimates in the local theory.

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arXiv2006

The initial-boundary value problem for the Korteweg-de Vries equation

We prove local well-posedness of the initial-boundary value problem for the Korteweg-de Vries equation on the right half-line, left half-line, and line segment, in the low regularity setting. This is accomplished by introducing an analytic family of boundary forcing operators, extending the techniques of Colliander-Kenig (2002).

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