2002/12/31 by Remi Carles, Clotilde Fermanian-Kammerer, Isabelle Gallagher
Mathematics · #math.AP #msc:35Q55 #msc:35B40 #msc:35B05
published as Journal of Functional Analysis, 203/2 (2003), 453-493 · 29 pages. References added/updated, some typos fixed, more explanations
arxiv created 2003/02/05 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We consider a nonlinear semi-classical Schrodinger equation for which it is known that quadratic oscillations lead to focusing at one point, described by a nonlinear scattering operator. If the initial data is an energy bounded sequence, we prove that the nonlinear term has an effect at leading order only if the initial data have quadratic oscillations; the proof relies on a linearizability condition (which can be expressed in terms of Wigner measures). When the initial data is a sum of such quadratic oscillations, we prove that the associate solution is the superposition of the nonlinear evolution of each of them, up to a small remainder term. In an appendix, we transpose those results to the case of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation with harmonic potential.