Blowup for fractional NLS

Thomas Boulenger, Dominik Himmelsbach, Enno Lenzmann

Published 2015-09-29Version 1

We consider fractional NLS with focusing power-type nonlinearity $$i \partial_t u = (-\Delta)^s u - |u|^{2 \sigma} u, \quad (t,x) \in \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}^N,$$ where $1/2< s < 1$ and $0 < \sigma < \infty$ for $s \geq N/2$ and $0 < \sigma \leq 2s/(N-2s)$ for $s < N/2$. We prove a general criterion for blowup of radial solutions in $\mathbb{R}^N$ with $N \geq 2$ for $L^2$-supercritical and $L^2$-critical powers $\sigma \geq 2s/N$. In addition, we study the case of fractional NLS posed on a bounded star-shaped domain $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^N$ in any dimension $N \geq 1$ and subject to exterior Dirichlet conditions. In this setting, we prove a general blowup result without imposing any symmetry assumption on $u(t,x)$. For the blowup proof in $\mathbb{R}^N$, we derive a localized virial estimate for fractional NLS in $\mathbb{R}^N$, which uses Balakrishnan's formula for the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ from semigroup theory. In the setting of bounded domains, we use a Pohozaev-type estimate for the fractional Laplacian to prove blowup.