Special Session 138: 

Construction of Solutions for some Localized Nonlinear Schr\\"odinger Equations

Matias Courdurier
Universidad Catolica de Chile
Chile
Co-Author(s):    Olivier Bourget, Matias Courdurier, Claudio Fernandez
Abstract:
For an $N$-body system of linear Schr\odinger equation with space dependent interaction between particles, one would expect that the corresponding one body equation, arising as a mean field approximation, would have a space dependent nonlinearity. With such motivation we consider the following model of a nonlinear reduced Schr\odinger equation with space dependent nonlinearity \begin{align*} -\varphi``+V(x)h`(|\varphi|^2)\varphi = \lambda \varphi, \end{align*} where $V(x)=-\chi_{[-1,1]} (x)$ is minus the characteristic function of the interval $[-1,1]$ and where $h`$ is any continuous strictly increasing function. In this talk, for any negative value of $\lambda$ we present the construction and analysis of the infinitely many solutions of this equation, which are localized in space and hence correspond to bound-states of the associated time-dependent version of the equation.