Existence and dynamics of normalized solutions to Schr\"odinger equations with generic double-behaviour nonlinearities

Abstract

We study the existence of solutions $(\underline u,\lambda_{\underline u})\in H^1(\mathbb{R}^N; \mathbb{R}) \times \mathbb{R}$ to \[ -\Delta u + \lambda u = f(u) \quad \text{in } \mathbb{R}^N \] with $N \ge 3$ and prescribed $L^2$ norm, and the dynamics of the solutions to \[ \begin{cases} \mathrm{i} \partial_t \Psi + \Delta \Psi = f(\Psi)\\ \Psi(\cdot,0) = \psi_0 \in H^1(\mathbb{R}^N; \mathbb{C}) \end{cases} \] with $\psi_0$ close to $\underline u$. Here, the nonlinear term $f$ has mass-subcritical growth at the origin, mass-supercritical growth at infinity, and is more general than the sum of two powers. Under different assumptions, we prove the existence of a locally least-energy solution, the orbital stability of all such solutions, the existence of a second solution with higher energy, and the strong instability of such a solution.