P. Bizon, F. Ficek, D.E. Pelinovsky, and S. Sobieszek

Ground state in the energy super-critical Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a harmonic potential

Nonlinear Analysis 210 (2021) 112358 (36 papers)

Abstract:
The energy super-critical Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a harmonic potential is revisited in the particular case of cubic focusing nonlinearity and dimension d >= 5. In order to prove the existence of a ground state (a positive, radially symmetric solution in the energy space), we develop the shooting method and deal with a one-parameter family of classical solutions to an initial-value problem for the stationary equation. We prove that the solution curve (the graph of the eigenvalue parameter versus the supremum) is oscillatory for d <= 12 and monotone for d >= 13. Compared to the existing literature, rigorous asymptotics are derived by constructing three families of solutions to the stationary equation with functional-analytic rather than geometric methods.

Keywords:
Gross-Pitaevskii equation, energy super-critical case, oscillatory behavior, mononote behavior, shooting method, rigorous asymptotics.