Action versus energy ground states in nonlinear Schrödinger equations

We investigate the relations between normalized critical points of the nonlinear Schrödinger energy functional and critical points of the corresponding action functional on the associated Nehari manifold. Our first general result is that the ground state levels are strongly related by the following...

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Published in:Mathematische annalen 2023-04, Vol.385 (3-4), p.1545-1576
Main Authors: Dovetta, Simone, Serra, Enrico, Tilli, Paolo
Format: Article
Language:English
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Critical point
Ground state
Mathematics
Mathematics and Statistics
Schrodinger equation
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Summary:We investigate the relations between normalized critical points of the nonlinear Schrödinger energy functional and critical points of the corresponding action functional on the associated Nehari manifold. Our first general result is that the ground state levels are strongly related by the following duality result: the (negative) energy ground state level is the Legendre–Fenchel transform of the action ground state level. Furthermore, whenever an energy ground state exists at a certain frequency, then all action ground states with that frequency have the same mass and are energy ground states too. We prove that the converse is in general false and that the action ground state level may fail to be convex. Next we analyze the differentiability of the ground state action level and we provide an explicit expression involving the mass of action ground states. Finally we show that similar results hold also for local minimizers.
ISSN:0025-5831
1432-1807
DOI:10.1007/s00208-022-02382-z