Global well-posedness for Dirac equation with concentrated nonlinearity
Elena Kopylova

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This paper establishes the global well-posedness of the three-dimensional Dirac equation when it includes a concentrated nonlinearity, ensuring solutions exist and are unique over time.
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It provides the first proof of global well-posedness for the 3D Dirac equation with concentrated nonlinearity, advancing understanding of nonlinear quantum field models.
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Proved global existence and uniqueness of solutions.
Extended well-posedness results to nonlinear Dirac equations.
Confirmed stability of solutions over time.
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We prove global well-posedness for 3D Dirac equation with a concentrated nonlinearity.
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Global well-posedness for Dirac equation with concentrated nonlinearity
Elena Kopylova 111Research supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under Grant No. P27492-N25 and RFBR grant 18-01-00524.
*Faculty of Mathematics of Vienna University and IITP RAS *
Abstract
We prove global well-posedness for 3D Dirac equation with a concentrated nonlinearity.
1 Introduction
We denote by the Dirac operator , where , with and are Dirac matrices. We consider the Dirac field coupled to a nonlinear oscillator
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Here , are vector functions with values in , is the Green function of the operator in ,
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and is a smoothing operator, defined as
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where is the Fourier transform of . Obviously, as . Hence, in the limit , the coupling in (1) formally depends on the value of the regular parts of the Dirac field at one point only.
We assume that the nonlinearity admits a real-valued potential:
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where with and , and
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Our main result is as follows. For initial data of type
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we prove a global well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the system(1).
Let us comment on our approach. We develop the approach which was introduced in [7, 8] in the context of the Klein-Gordon and wave equations. First, we obtain some regularity properties i) of solutions to the free Dirac equation with initial data (5), and ii) of solutions to the Dirac equation with zero initial data and with the source , where ( Lemmas 3.1 and 3.2, and Propositions 4.1 and 4.2). We use these regularity properties to prove the existence of a local solution to (1) of the type
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We show that is a solution to a first-order nonlinear integro-differential equation driven by . Then we prove that conditions (3)–(4) provide the energy conservation. Finally, we use the energy conservation to obtain the global existence theorem. Let us note that the system (1) without smoothing operator is not well posed (see Remark 4.5).
As was noted above, the Dirac equation with concentrated nonlinearities is not well posed in contrast to corresponding Klein-Gordon equation [7] and wave equation [8]. So we should to introduce a smoothing operator resembling the Pauli-Willars renormalization. As the result, we have found a novel model of nonlinear point interaction which provides the Hamilton structure and needed a priori estimates. However, the introduction of the smoothing operator in (1) leads to additional difficulties in justification of numerous limits. We overcome these difficulties using subtle properties of special functions.
2 Main result
We denote by any number with an arbitrary small, but fixed . We fix a nonlinear function and define the domain
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which generally is not a linear space. Everywhere below we will write and instead of and . Denote .
Theorem 2.1**.**
Let conditions (3) and (4) hold. Then
For every initial data with the equation (1) has a unique solution such that
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The following conservation law holds:
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The following a priori bound holds:
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Obviously, it suffices to prove Theorem 2.1 for . We will do it in Section 5. Previously, we obtain some necessary properties of the free Dirac equation an of the Dirac equations with sources of special kinds.
3 Free Dirac equation
Consider the solution to the free Dirac equation
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with initial data . Evidently, . Denote
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Lemma 3.1**.**
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Proof.
We represent the solution to (8) as
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where vector function is a solution to the free Klein-Gordon equation
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Then the functions and satisfy
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It is obvious that . Then applying [7, Corollary 4.3], we obtain
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Hence, (11) implies
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∎
Now we consider the free Dirac equation with initial data with arbitrary ,
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and obtain explicit formula for the solution . Note that the function
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satisfies
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since . Similarly to (11), we represent as
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where
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is the solution to the Klein-Gordon equation
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Here is the Heaviside function and is the Bessel function of the first order. Finally, (13) and (14) imply
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Lemma 3.2**.**
For any there exists
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The function is continuous for , and there exists
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Proof.
Applying the Fourier transform , we get
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Then for (18) it suffices to justify the following permutation of the limits:
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We will do it for each term in (20) separately.
Step i) It is obvious that
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Step ii) Now we prove that
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First, note that
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since
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On the other hand,
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by [4, Formula 1.3.(7)]. Here is the modified Bessel function, and is the gamma function. One can justify the last limit, splitting the integral into a sum of integrals over the intervals and , and integrating by parts in the second one. Therefore,
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since
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by [9, Formulas 5.7.1 and 10.39.2].
Step iii) It remains to check that
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One has
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where . Evidently,
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Hence, (21) will follow from
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Note, that
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where
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The last estimate implies
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Moreover,
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that easily follows by means of integration by parts. Finally, (23) –(24) imply (22). ∎
4 Linear Dirac equation with sources
4.1 Dirac equation with the source
For arbitrary , consider the equation
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It is easy to verify that
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where
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is the solution to the Klein-Gordon equation with -like source:
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Hence
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where is defined in (15), and
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Lemma 4.1**.**
For any such that , one has
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Proof.
The Fourier transform of for any reads
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Hence, it remains to prove that
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Integrating by parts, we obtain
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Note, that
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or equivalently,
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One can easily justify this by partial integration. Hence, for (30), it remains to prove that
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We split the integrand in (31) as
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and justify the permutation of the limits (31) for integrals of each terms in the RHS of (32) separately.
Step i) First, consider the integral of the second term of (32). By the Fubini theorem
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Hence,
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by the Lebesgue theorem.
Step ii) Similarly, for the integral of the first term, we obtain
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since
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Step iii) It remains to consider the third term of (32) and prove that
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Applying the Fubini and the Lebesgue theorems, we get
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by [4, Formula 2.3.(6)]. Here is the modified Bessel function, and is the modified Struve function, satisfying
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due to formulas (10.30.1) and (11.2.2) of [9]. On the other hand, the Fubini theorem implies
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where
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Evidently,
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Further, we represent as
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In the case , we obtain
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In the case , we obtain
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Due to (37)–(39), we can apply the Lebesgue theorem in (36) and obtain
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which coincides with the right hand side of (34). Hence, (33) follows. ∎
Proposition 4.2**.**
For any , such that , there exists
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Note that . Then the Proposition follows from two lemmas below.
Lemma 4.3**.**
The following limit holds,
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Proof.
Note that is a solution to (25) with instead of . Hence,
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Applying (31) with instead of , we get
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It remains to calculate . Integrating by parts in (42), we obtain
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Let us calculate the inverse Fourier transform of and of . In the sense of distributions, we obtain
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Similarly,
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Hence, (44) -(46) imply for and
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Note, that
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Moreover,
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Substituting this into (47), we obtain
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since by [5, Formula 6.561(17)]. Finally, (43) and (48) imply (41). ∎
Lemma 4.4**.**
The following limit holds
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Proof.
Due to (42),
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Integrating here by parts, we obtain
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We have
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Substituting this into (50), we get (49). ∎
Remark 4.5*.*
Note, that the limit (49) does not exist without the smoothing operator . This immediately follows from the Taylor expansion of : using (47), we obtain
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where
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Evidently, does not exist.
4.2 Dirac equation with the source
For arbitrary , consider the equation
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Lemma 4.6**.**
Let , with , and let . Then the solution to (51) satisfies
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Proof.
We represent as the sum , where is a solution to the free Dirac equation with initial data , and is a solution to (51) with zero initial data. Evidently, . It remains to prove that
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We represent as , where is the solution to
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Then, for (52) we need to prove that
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Applying the Fourier transform, we obtain
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Then (53) is equivalent to
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Both integrals are estimated in the same way, and we consider the first integral only. One has
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since
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∎
5 Proof of well-posedness
First, we modify the nonlinearity so that it becomes Lipschitz continuous. Define
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where is the initial data from Theorem 2.1 and , are constants from (4). Then we may pick a modified potential function , so that
i) the identity holds
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ii) satisfies (4) with the same constant , as does:
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iii) the functions are Lipschitz continuous:
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We suppose that , where , and consider the Cauchy problem for (1)) with the modified nonlinearity . As before we denote by the unique solution to (8), and by the unique solution to (12) with . Let and are defined by (9) and by (18). The following lemma is proved by standard argument from the contraction mapping principle.
Lemma 5.1**.**
Let conditions (55)–(57) be satisfied. Then there exists such that the Cauchy problem
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has unique solution .
Denote
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where is defined in (15), and
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with from Lemma 5.1. Now we establish the local well-posedeness for (1).
Proposition 5.2**.**
(Local well-posedeness). Let the conditions (55)–(57) hold. Then the function
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is a unique solution to the Cauchy problem
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Proof.
Using (9), (17), (59), (18), (29) and (40) successively, we get
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since solves (58). Hence, the second equation of (61) is satisfied. Further,
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Hence, solves the first equation of (61). Finally, the function satisfies
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Indeed, is a solution to
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with initial data and with satisfying equation (58). Lemma 3.1 implies that . Moreover, by (18). Hence, (58) implies that , and (62) holds by Lemma 4.6.
Suppose now that is another solution to (61). Then, by reversing the above argument, the second equation of (61) implies that solves the Cauchy problem (58). The uniqueness of the solution of (58) implies that . Then, defining
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and
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for one obtains
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Thus, solves the Cauchy problem for the free Dirac equation with initial data . Hence, by the uniqueness of the solution to this Cauchy problem, we have , and then . ∎
Lemma 5.3**.**
Let conditions (55)–(57) hold, and let , , be a solution to (61). Then
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Proof.
Equation (63) and the second equation of (61) imply for any
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Here the scalar product exists since for any due to Lemma 4.6. The right hand side of (65) is continuous bounded function since and . Hence, in the sense of distributions
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Then (64) follows. ∎
Corollary 5.4**.**
The following identity holds
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Proof.
First note that
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Therefore, and then , . Further,
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Hence, (64) implies that
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∎
Identity (66) implies that we can replace by in Proposition 5.2 and in Lemma 5.3.
Proof of Theorem 2.1. The solution constructed in Proposition 5.2 exists for , where the time span in Lemma 5.1 depends only on . Hence, the bound (67) at allows us to extend the solution to the time interval . We proceed by induction to obtain the solution for all .
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