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 giveIndeed 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]
Critical nonlinear Schrödinger equations with and without harmonic potential by Rémi Carles. Equations (1.4)–(1.5), lens-transform mechanism; the displayed parameter and norm calculations use the wiki coefficient convention
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 154 3 4 Solution 2026-09-28
Substitute the Focusing Schrödinger lens ansatz intoThe imaginary terms proportional to cancel because . After multiplying the remaining real equation by , one obtainsThe dynamical system gives . Comparison with the equation for therefore requiresThus, up to an arbitrary constant phase,