Special Session 121: 

Strong instability of standing waves for nonlinear Schr\\{o}dinger equations with an attractive inverse power potential

Noriyoshi Fukaya
Tokyo University of Science
Japan
Co-Author(s):    Masahito Ohta, Yusuke Shimabukuro
Abstract:
We consider strong instability of the standing wave $e^{i\omega t}\phi_\omega(x)$ for $N$-dimensional nonlinear Schr\odinger equations with $L^2$-supercritical nonlinearity and an attractive inverse power potential, where $\omega$ is the frequency of the standing wave, and $\phi_\omega$ is a ground state of the corresponding stationary equation. Recently, Ohta proved that if $\partial_\lambda^2E(\phi_\omega^\lambda)|_{\lambda=1}\le0$, then the standing wave for NLS with a harmonic potential is strongly unstable, where $E$ is the energy, and $\lambda\mapsto v^\lambda(x):=\lambda^{N/2}v(\lambda x)$ is the scaling, which does not change $L^2$-norm. In this talk, we prove strong instability under the same assumption as the above-mentioned in inverse power potential case. Our proof can be applicable to NLS with other potentials such as an attractive Dirac delta potential.