Long range scattering for the nonlinear Schr"odinger equation with higher order anisotropic dispersion in two dimensions
Jean-Claude Saut, Jun-ichi Segata

TL;DR
This paper proves long range scattering for a two-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with higher order anisotropic dispersion, demonstrating solutions that asymptotically approach a specified profile with a logarithmic phase correction.
Contribution
It establishes the long range scattering for 2D higher order anisotropic NLS with quadratic nonlinearity, extending previous studies to include this specific case.
Findings
Constructed solutions converging to prescribed asymptotic profiles.
Demonstrated the necessity of logarithmic phase correction.
Extended understanding of long time behavior in anisotropic dispersive equations.
Abstract
This paper is a continuation of our previous study on the long time behavior of solution to the nonlinear Schr"odinger equation with higher order anisotropic dispersion (4NLS). We prove the long range scattering for (4NLS) with the quadratic nonlinearity in two dimensions. More precisely, for a given asymptotic profile , we construct a solution to (4NLS) which converges to as t to infinity, where is given by the leading term of the solution to the linearized equation of (4NLS) with a logarithmic phase correction.
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Long range scattering for the nonlinear
Schrödinger equation with higher order
anisotropic dispersion in two dimensions
Jean-Claude Saut
Laboratoire de Mathématiques, CNRS and Université Paris-Sud
91405 Orsay, France
and
Jun-ichi Segata
Mathematical Institute, Tohoku University
6-3, Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
Abstract.
This paper is a continuation of our previous study [13] on the long time behavior of solution to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with higher order anisotropic dispersion (4NLS). We prove the long range scattering for (4NLS) with the quadratic nonlinearity in two dimensions. More precisely, for a given asymptotic profile , we construct a solution to (4NLS) which converges to as , where is given by the leading term of the solution to the linearized equation of (4NLS) with a logarithmic phase correction.
Key words and phrases:
Schrödinger equation with higher order dispersion, scattering problem
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification:
Primary 35Q55; Secondary 35B40
1. Introduction
This paper is a continuation of our previous study [13] on the long time behavior of solution to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with higher order anisotropic dispersion:
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where is an unknown function and . Equation (1.1) arises in nonlinear optics to model the propagation of ultrashort laser pulses in a medium with anomalous time-dispersion in the presence of fourth-order time-dispersion (see [3, 6, 16] and the references therein). It also arises in models of propagation in fiber arrays (see [1, 5]). The readers can consult [4] for the well-posedness of (1.1), and existence/non-existence and qualitative properties results of solitary wave solutions for (1.1).
In this paper, we consider the scattering problem for (1.1). Since the solution to the linearized equation of (1.1) decays like in as (see Ben-Artzi, Koch and Saut [2]), we expect that if , then the (small) solution to (1.1) will scatter to the solution to the linearized equation and if , then the solution to (1.1) will not scatter. The homogeneous fourth order nonlinear Schrödinger type equation
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has been studied by many authors from the point of view of the scattering. See [13] for a review of the known results on the scattering and blow-up problem for (1.2). Compared to the homogeneous equation (1.2), there are few results on the long time behavior of solution for (1.1). For the one dimensional cubic case, the second author [14] proved that for a given asymptotic profile, there exists a solution to (1.1) which converges to the given asymptotic profile as , where the asymptotic profile is given by the leading term of the solution to the linearized equation with a logarithmic phase correction. Furthermore, Hayashi and Naumkin [10] proved that for any small initial data, there exists a global solution to (1.1) with which behaves like a solution to the linearized equation with a logarithmic phase correction. Recently, the authors [13] have shown the unique existence of solution to (1.1) which scatters to the free solution for if and if . In this paper, refining the asymptotic formula [13, Proposition 2.1] as for the solution to the linearized equation of (1.1), we prove the long range scattering for (1.1) with the quadratic nonlinearity in two dimensions.
Let us consider the final state problem:
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where is an unknown function and is a “modified” asymptotic profile given by
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where is a stationary point for the oscillatory integral (2.4) associated with the linearized equation of (1.5), i.e.,
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Our main result in this paper is as follows:
Theorem 1.1** (Long range scattering).**
There exists with the following properties: for any with (see (1.13) for the definition of ), there exists a unique global solution to (1.5) satisfying
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for , where and is given by (1.6).
We give an outline of the proof of Theorem 1.1. To prove Theorem 1.1, we employ the argument by Ozawa [12], Hayashi and Naumkin [8, 9]. We first construct a solution to the final state problem
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where and is a unitary group generated by the operator . To prove this, we first rewrite (1.10) as the integral equation
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where
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Next, we apply the contraction mapping principle to the integral equation (1.11) in a suitable function space. In this step the asymptotic formula (Proposition 2.1) and the Strichartz estimate (Lemma 2.2) for the linear equation (2.3) play an important role. Finally, we show that the solutions of (1.10) converge to in as .
Remark 1.2*.*
It is not likely that our proof will be applicable for the three dimensional critical case (i.e., (1.1) with and ) due to the lack of smoothness of the nonlinear term.
By using the argument by Glassey [7] we can prove the non-existence of asymptotically free solution for (1.1) with .
Theorem 1.3** (Nonexistence of asymptotically free solution).**
Let and . Let be a solution to (1.1) with . Assume that there exists a function with such that
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as , where is a unitary group generated by the operator . Then .
We introduce several notations and function spaces which are used throughout this paper. For , denote the Fourier transform of . Let . The differential operator denotes the Bessel potential of order . We define for . For , is defined as follows:
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We will use the Sobolev spaces
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and the weighted Sobolev spaces
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We denote various constants by and so forth. They may differ from line to line, when this does not cause any confusion.
The plan of the present paper is as follows. In Section 2, we prove several linear estimates for the fourth order Schrödinger type equation (2.3). In Section 3, we prove Theorem 1.1 by applying the contraction mapping principle to the integral equation (1.11). Finally in Section 4, we give the proof of Theorem 1.3.
2. Linear Estimates
In this section, we derive several linear estimates that will be crucial for the proof of Theorem 1.1, for the fourth order Schrödinger type equation
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The solution to (2.3) can be rewritten as
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The following proposition is a refinement of [13, Proposition 2.1.] for and .
Proposition 2.1**.**
We have
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for , where is given by (1.7) and satisfies
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for .
Proof of Proposition 2.1..
We easily see
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where
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By the Fresnel integral formula
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we have
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Therefore, we find
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We split into the following two pieces:
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To evaluate , we split into
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We rewrite as follows:
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where is defined by
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Let
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Then, can be rewritten as follows:
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For , changing the variable , we have
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In addition, changing the variable () and using the Fresnel integral formula, we obtain
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Next we evaluate . Integrating by parts via the identity
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with
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we have
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Furthermore, integrating by parts via the identity
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with
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we obtain
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Using the inequalities
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for , we have
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By using the inequalities
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we see
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where . Hence
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For , integrating by parts via the identity (2.10), we have
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Furthermore, integrating by parts via the identity (2.9), we have
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where
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Since , we see that
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Combining (2.11) and (2.12) with the above three inequalities, we have
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Hence, by an argument similar to (2.14), we have
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where . By (LABEL:u3), (2.8), (2.15) and (2.17), we have
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where satisfies
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with . Hence the Plancherel identity yield
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Next we evaluate . By (2.14), we obtain
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By an argument similar to that in (2.19), we have
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Next, we evaluate . We write
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The same argument as that in (LABEL:long) yields that is equal to the right hand side of (LABEL:long) by replacing by . Since
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we have
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By an argument similar to that in (2.14), we obtain
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where . Hence
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Combining the above inequality and the Plancherel identity, we have
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Finally let us evaluate . can be rewritten as
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where is a unitary group generated by the linear operator :
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Then, we obtain
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Combining the above identity and the Plancherel identity, we have
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Collecting (2.5), (2.6), (2.18), (2.19), (2.20), (2.21) and (2.22), we obtain the desired result. ∎
To prove Theorem 1.1, we employ the decay estimate and the Strichartz estimate for the linear fourth order Schrödinger equation (2.3).
Lemma 2.2**.**
Let be given by (2.4).
(i) Let . Then, the inequality
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holds.
(ii) Let () satisfy and . Then, the inequality
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holds.
Proof of Lemma 2.2..
See [11, Theorem 3.1, Theorem 3.2] for instance. ∎
3. Proof of Theorem 1.1.
In this section we prove Theorem 1.1. To this end, we show the following lemma for the asymptotic profile.
Lemma 3.1**.**
Let be given by (1.6). Then we have for ,
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where is a polynomial in without constant term.
Proof of Lemma 3.1..
Since the proof follows from a direct calculations, we omit the detail. ∎
Let us start the proof of Theorem 1.1. We first rewrite (1.10) as the integral equation. Let and let
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where is given by (1.6). From (1.10) and (3.1), we obtain
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Subtracting (3.3) from (3.2), we have
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Proposition 2.1 and Lemma 3.1 yield
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where is given by (1.6) and satisfies
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where . Furthermore, by Proposition 2.1 and Lemma 3.1,
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where
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Substituting (3.6) into (LABEL:761), we obtain
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Integrating the above equation with respect to variable on , we have
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To show the existence of satisfying (3.8), we shall prove that if is sufficiently small, then the map given by
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is a contraction on
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for some and .
Let and . Then the Strichartz estimate (Lemma 2.2) implies
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By the Hölder inequality,
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Substituting the above two inequalities, (3.5), and (3.7) into (3.9), we have
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Choosing , large enough, and sufficiently small, we find that is a map onto . In a similar way we can conclude that is a contraction map on . Therefore, by the Banach fixed point theorem we find that has a unique fixed point in which is the solution to the final state problem (1.10).
From (1.10), we obtain
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Since , combining the argument by [15] with the Strichartz estimate (Lemma 2.2) and conservation law for (3.10), we can prove that (3.10) has a unique global solution in . Therefore the solution of (1.10) can be extended to all times.
Finally we show that the solution to (1.10) converges to in as . Since , Proposition 2.1 and Lemma 3.1 yield
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where . This completes the proof of Theorem 1.1. ∎
4. Proof of Theorem 1.3.
In this section we prove Theorem 1.3 via the argument by Glassey [7]. To prove Theorem 1.3, we employ the asymptotic formula [13, Proposition 2.1] as for the solution to
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Lemma 4.1**.**
Let be a solution to (4.3). Then we have
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for , where is given by
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and satisfies
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for , and .
Proof of Lemma 4.1.
See [13, Proposition 2.1]. ∎
Proof of Theorem 1.3.
Let and let be a solution to (1.1) satisfying (1.12). We denote . Then a direct calculation shows
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where is defined by
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By the definition of , we easily see
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By Lemma 4.1 and the conservation law for norm of , we have
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where and .
By Lemma 4.1 and the conservation law for norm of , we have
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where and . By (4.4), (4.5), (4.6) and (4.7), we have
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Hence by the assumption (1.12) on , we see that there exists such that for ,
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Hence we have . This completes the proof. ∎
Acknowledgments. Part of this work was done while J.S was visiting the Department of Mathematics at Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay whose hospitality he gratefully acknowledges. J.S. is partially supported by JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 17H02851. J.-C. S. is partly supported by the ANR project ANuI.
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