Explicit expanding focusing Schrödinger lens Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-11-05
Let and let solve the trapped focusing cubic ground-state equation. In the Focusing Schrödinger lens ansatz, the initial conditions and give
Indeed and . The positive keeps the scale nonzero for every real time.
A change of variables proves the critical spacetime bound exactly:
Thus the solution expands at large times and has finite spacetime norm, rather than merely pointwise decay. This is the norm used by scattering from a finite Strichartz norm.[ref]
Substitute the Focusing Schrödinger lens ansatz into
The imaginary terms proportional to cancel because . After multiplying the remaining real equation by , one obtains
The dynamical system gives . Comparison with the equation for therefore requires
Thus, up to an arbitrary constant phase,