Asymptotic and limiting profiles of blowup solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with critical power

✍ Scribed by Hayato Nawa

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 751 KB
• Volume: 52
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-3640
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0312(199902)52:2<193::aid-cpa2>3.0.co;2-3

✦ Synopsis

This paper is a sequel to previous ones [38,39,41]. We continue the study of the blowup problem for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with critical power nonlinearity (NSC). We introduce a new idea to prove the existence of a blowup solution in H 1 (R N ) without any weight condition and reduce the problem to a kind of variational problem. Our new method refines the previous results concerning the asymptotic and limiting profiles of blowup solutions: For a certain class of initial data, the blowup solution behaves like a finite superposition of zero-energy, H 1 -bounded, global-in-time solutions of (NSC); these singularities stay in a bounded region in R N , and one can see that the so-called shoulder emerges outside these singularities as suggested by some numerical computations (see, e.g., [26]). We investigate the asymptotic behavior of zero-energy, global-in-time solutions of (NSC) and find that such a solution behaves like a "multisoliton." However, it is not an assemblage of free "particles"; the "solitons" interact with each other.