Solitary waves for nonlinear Schrödinger equation with derivative

Abstract

In this paper, we characterize a family of solitary waves for nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) with derivative (DNLS) by the structure analysis and the variational argument. Since DNLS does not enjoy the Galilean invariance any more, the structure analysis here is closely related with the nontrivial momentum and shows the equivalence of nontrivial solutions between the quasilinear and the semilinear equations. Firstly, for the subcritical parameters [Formula: see text] and the critical parameters [Formula: see text], we show the existence and uniqueness of the solitary waves for DNLS, up to the phase rotation and spatial translation symmetries. Secondly, for the critical parameters [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and the supercritical parameters [Formula: see text], there is no nontrivial solitary wave for DNLS. At last, we make use of the invariant sets, which is related to the variational characterization of the solitary wave, to obtain the global existence of solution for DNLS with initial data in the invariant set [Formula: see text], with [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text]. On the one hand, different with the scattering result for the [Formula: see text]-critical NLS in [B. Dodson, Global well-posedness and scattering for the mass critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation with mass below the mass of the ground state, Adv. Math. 285(5) (2015) 1589–1618], the scattering result of DNLS does not hold for initial data in [Formula: see text] because of the existence of infinity many small solitary/traveling waves in [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] or [Formula: see text]. On the other hand, our global result improves the global result in [Y. Wu, Global well-posedness of the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equations in energy space, Anal. Partial Differential Equations 6(8) (2013) 1989–2002; Global well-posedness on the derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation, Anal. Partial Differential Equations 8(5) (2015) 1101–1112] (see Corollary 1.6).

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