A global compact attractor for high-dimensional defocusing non-linear Schrödinger equations with potential
Abstract
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We study the asymptotic behavior of large data solutions in the energy space $H := H^1(\R^d)$ in very high dimension $d \geq 11$ to defocusing Schrödinger equations $i u_t + Δu = |u|^{p-1} u + Vu$ in $\R^d$, where $V \in C^\infty_0(\R^d)$ is a real potential (which could contain bound states), and $1+\frac{4}{d} < p < 1+\frac{4}{d-2}$ is an exponent which is energy-subcritical and mass-supercritical. In the spherically symmetric case, we show that as $t \to +\infty$, these solutions split into a radiation term that evolves according to the linear Schrödinger equation, and a remainder which converges in $H$ to a compact attractor $K$, which consists of the union of spherically symmetric almost periodic orbits of the NLS flow in $H$. The main novelty of this result is that $K$ is a \emph{global} attractor, being independent of the initial energy of the initial data; in particular, no matter how large the initial data is, all but a bounded amount of energy is radiated away in the limit.
19 pages, no figures, submitted, Dynamics of PDE. Referee corrections incorporated
19 pages, no figures, submitted, Dynamics of PDE. Referee corrections incorporated