Asymptotic stability of solitons to 1D nonlinear Schrödinger equations in subcritical case

Abstract

We prove the asymptotic stability of solitary waves to 1D nonlinear Schrödinger equations in the subcritical case with symmetry and spectrum assumptions. One of the main ideas is to use the vector fields method developed by S. Cuccagna, V. Georgiev, and N. Visciglia [Comm. Pure Appl. Math., 2013, 6: 957–980] to overcome the weak decay with respect to t of the linearized equation caused by the one dimension setting and the weak nonlinearity caused by the subcritical growth of the nonlinearity term. Meanwhile, we apply the polynomial growth of the high Sobolev norms of solutions to 1D Schrödinger equations obtained by G. Staffilani [Duke Math. J., 1997, 86(1): 109–142] to control the high moments of the solutions emerging from the vector fields method.

Keywords

Nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) / solitons / weak nonlinearity / asymptotic stability

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