Coordinates at small energy and refined profiles for the Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equation
Abstract
In this paper we give a new and simplified proof of the theorem on selection of standing waves for small energy solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations (NLS) that we gave in CM15APDE. We consider a NLS with a Schr\"odinger operator with several eigenvalues, with corresponding families of small standing waves, and we show that any small energy solution converges to the orbit of a time periodic solution plus a scattering term. The novel idea is to consider the "refined profile", a quasi--periodic function in time which almost solves the NLS and encodes the discrete modes of a solution. The refined profile, obtained by elementary means, gives us directly an optimal coordinate system, avoiding the normal form arguments in CM15APDE, giving us also a better understanding of the Fermi Golden Rule.