Existence of Chaos for a Singularly Perturbed NLS Equation

Abstract

The work [Li,99] is generalized to the singularly perturbed nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation of which the regularly perturbed NLS studied in [Li,99] is a mollification. Specifically, the existence of Smale horseshoes and Bernoulli shift dynamics is established in a neighborhood of a symmetric pair of Silnikov homoclinic orbits under certain generic conditions, and the existence of the symmetric pair of Silnikov homoclinic orbits has been proved in [Li,01]. The main difficulty in the current horseshoe construction is introduced by the singular perturbation $\e \pa_x^2$ which turns the unperturbed reversible system into an irreversible system. It turns out that the equivariant smooth linearization can still be achieved, and the Conley-Moser conditions can still be realized.