On scattering for two-dimensional quintic Schr\"odinger equation under partial harmonic confinement

TL;DR

This paper establishes scattering results for a two-dimensional defocusing quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with partial harmonic confinement, using linear profile decomposition, normal form techniques, and concentration-compactness methods.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach combining linear profile decomposition and dispersive analysis to prove scattering for the 2D quintic NLS with partial harmonic confinement.

Findings

Proved scattering in weighted Sobolev spaces for the equation.

Developed long-time Strichartz estimates for spectral projections.

Established scattering theory for the associated dispersive resonant system.

Abstract

In this article, we study the scattering theory for the two dimensional defocusing quintic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation(NLS) with partial harmonic oscillator which is given by \begin{align}\label{NLS-abstract} \begin{cases}\tag{PHNLS} i\partial_tu+(\partial_{x_1}^2+\partial_{x_2}^2)u-x_2^2u=|u|^4u,&(t,x_1,x_2)\in\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R},\\ u(0,x_1,x_2)=u_0(x_1,x_2). \end{cases} \end{align} First, we establish the linear profile decomposition for the Schr\"odinger operator $e^{it(\partial_{x_1}^2+\partial_{x_2}^2-x_2^2)}$ by utilizing the classical linear profile decomposition associated with the Schr\"odinger equation in $L^2(\mathbb{R})$. Then, applying the normal form technique, we approximate the nonlinear profiles using solutions of the new-type quintic dispersive continuous resonant (DCR) system. This allows us to employ the concentration-compactness/rigidity argument introduced by Kenig and Merle in our setting and prove scattering for equation (PHNLS) in the weighted Sobolev space. The second part of this paper is dedicated to proving the scattering theory for this mass-critical (DCR) system. Inspired by Dodson's seminal work [B. Dodson, Amer. J. Math. 138 (2016), 531-569], we develop long-time Strichartz estimates associated with the spectral projection operator $\Pi_n$, along with low-frequency localized Morawetz estimates, to address the challenges posed by the Galilean transformation and spatial translation.