Global weak solution of 3-D focusing energy-critical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation

TL;DR

This paper proves the existence of global weak solutions for the 3D focusing energy-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the non-radial case, using Ginzburg-Landau solutions as approximations and establishing weak-strong uniqueness.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach using Ginzburg-Landau solutions to establish global weak solutions for the 3D focusing energy-critical NLS in non-radial cases.

Findings

Existence of global weak solutions in non-radial case

Weak-strong uniqueness for certain initial data

Dichotomy of global well-posedness versus blow-up

Abstract

In this article, we prove the existence of global weak solutions to the three-dimensional focusing energy-critical nonlinear Schr\"odinger (NLS) equation in the non-radial case. Furthermore, we prove the weak-strong uniqueness for some class of initial data. The main ingredient of our new approach is to use solutions of an energy-critical Ginzburg-Landau equation as approximations for the corresponding nonlinear Sch\"ordinger equation. In our proofs, we first show the dichotomy of global well-posedness versus finite time blow-up of energy-critical Ginzburg-Landau equation in $\dot{H}^1( \mathbb{R}^d)$ for $d = 3,4 $ when the energy is less than the energy of the stationary solution $W$. We follow the strategy of C. E. Kenig and F. Merle [25,26], using a concentration-compactness/rigidity argument to reduce the global well-posedness to the exclusion of a critical element. The critical element is ruled out by dissipation of the Ginzburg-Landau equation, including local smoothness, backwards uniqueness and unique continuation. The existence of global weak solution of the three dimensional focusing energy-critical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in the non-radial case then follows from the global well-posedness of the energy-critical Ginzburg-Landau equation via a limitation argument. We also adapt the arguments of M. Struwe [37,38] to prove the weak-strong uniqueness when the $\dot{H}^1$-norm of the initial data is bounded by a constant depending on the stationary solution $W$.