Unconditional uniqueness of higher order nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations

Abstract

We show the existence of weak solutions in the extended sense of the Cauchy problem for the cubic fourth order nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with initial data $u_{0}\in X$, where $X\in\{M_{2,q}^{s}(\mathbb R), H^{\sigma}(\mathbb T), H^{s_{1}}(\mathbb R)+H^{s_{2}}(\mathbb T)\}$ and $q\in[1,2]$, $s\geq0$, or $\sigma\geq0$, or $s_{2}\geq s_{1}\geq0$. Moreover, if $M_{2,q}^{s}(\mathbb R)\hookrightarrow L^{3}(\mathbb R)$, or if $\sigma\geq\frac16$ or if $s_{1}\geq\frac16$ and $s_{2}>\frac12$ we show that the Cauchy problem is unconditionally wellposed in $X$. Similar results hold true for all higher order nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations and mixed order NLS due to a factorization property of the corresponding phase factors. For the proof we employ the normal form reduction via the differentiation by parts technique and build upon our previous work