Optimal error estimate of a conservative Fourier pseudo-spectral method for the space fractional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation

TL;DR

This paper develops an error analysis for a conservative Fourier pseudo-spectral method applied to the space fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equation, establishing unconditional convergence and providing numerical verification.

Contribution

It introduces a new fractional Sobolev norm and proves the unconditional convergence of the spectral method with specific error bounds.

Findings

Unconditional convergence with order O(τ² + N^{α/2 - r})

Introduction of a new fractional Sobolev norm

Numerical results verify theoretical error estimates

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the error analysis of a conservative Fourier pseudo-spectral method that conserves mass and energy for the space fractional nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation. We give a new fractional Sobolev norm that can construct the discrete fractional Sobolev space, and we also can prove some important lemmas for the new fractional Sobolev norm. Based on these lemmas and energy method, a priori error estimate for the method can be established. Then, we are able to prove that the Fourier pseudo-spectral method is unconditionally convergent with order $O(\tau^{2}+N^{\alpha/2-r})$ in the discrete $L^{\infty}$ norm, where $\tau$ is the time step and $N$ is the number of collocation points used in the spectral method. Numerical examples are presented to verify the theoretical analysis.