Asymptotic stability of solitons for near-cubic NLS equation with an internal mode

TL;DR

This paper proves the asymptotic stability of small-frequency solitary waves in a perturbed cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with an internal mode, under certain hypotheses including the Fermi golden rule.

Contribution

It demonstrates the existence of a unique internal mode and establishes the asymptotic stability of small solitary waves for a class of perturbed NLS equations.

Findings

Existence of a unique internal mode around small solitary waves.

Asymptotic stability of these solitary waves under the Fermi golden rule.

Applicability to equations with power-type nonlinearities.

Abstract

We consider perturbations of the one-dimensional cubic Schr\"odinger equation, of the form $i \, \partial_t \psi + \partial_x^2 \psi + |\psi|^2 \psi + g( |\psi|^2 ) \psi = 0$. Under hypotheses on the function $g$ that can be easily verified in some cases (such as $g(s) = s^\sigma$ with $\sigma >1$), we show that the linearized problem around a small solitary wave presents a unique internal mode. Moreover, under an additional hypothesis (the Fermi golden rule) that can also be verified in the case of powers $g(s) = s^\sigma$, we prove the asymptotic stability of the solitary waves with small frequencies.