A (concentration-)compact attractor for high-dimensional non-linear Schr\"odinger equations

Abstract

We study the asymptotic behavior of large data solutions to Schr\"odinger equations $i u_t + \Delta u = F(u)$ in $\R^d$, assuming globally bounded $H^1_x(\R^d)$ norm (i.e. no blowup in the energy space), in high dimensions $d \geq 5$ and with nonlinearity which is energy-subcritical and mass-supercritical. In the spherically symmetric case, we show that as $t \to +\infty$, these solutions split into a radiation term that evolves according to the linear Schr\"odinger equation, and a remainder which converges in $H^1_x(\R^d)$ to a compact attractor, which consists of the union of spherically symmetric almost periodic orbits of the NLS flow in $H^1_x(\R^d)$. This is despite the total lack of any dissipation in the equation. This statement can be viewed as weak form of the "soliton resolution conjecture". We also obtain a more complicated analogue of this result for the non-spherically-symmetric case. As a corollary we obtain the "petite conjecture" of Soffer in the high dimensional non-critical case.