Global Well-posedness for the periodic fractional cubic NLS in 1D

TL;DR

This paper proves global well-posedness for the defocusing periodic fractional cubic NLS in 1D for certain Sobolev spaces, using the I-method and improved bilinear Strichartz estimates.

Contribution

It establishes the sharp global well-posedness threshold for the fractional NLS on the torus, employing novel long-time bilinear estimates and the I-method.

Findings

Global well-posedness in H^s for s ≥ (1-α)/2.

Use of the I-method to handle infinite energy initial data.

Development of improved long-time bilinear Strichartz estimates.

Abstract

We consider the defocusing periodic fractional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $$ i \partial_t u +\left(-\Delta\right)^{\alpha}u=-\lvert u \rvert ^2 u, $$ where $\frac{1}{2}< \alpha < 1$ and the operator $(-\Delta)^\alpha$ is the fractional Laplacian with symbol $\lvert k \rvert ^{2\alpha}$. We establish global well-posedness in $H^s(\mathbb{T})$ for $s\geq \frac{1-\alpha}{2}$ and we conjecture this threshold to be sharp as it corresponds to the pseudo-Galilean symmetry exponent. Our proof uses the $I$-method to control the $H^s(\mathbb{T})$-norm of solutions with infinite energy initial data. A key component of our approach is a set of improved long-time bilinear Strichartz estimates on the rescaled torus, which allow us to exploit the subcritical nature of the equation.