Existence of a nontrivial self-similar biharmonic NLS profile

Let σ\sigma lie in the L2L^2-supercritical and H2H^2-subcritical regime, namely

{4/d<σ,d4,4/d<σ<4/(d4),d>4.\begin{cases} 4/d<\sigma,&d\leq4,\\ 4/d<\sigma<4/(d-4),&d>4. \end{cases}

Consider the radial nonlinear eigenvalue problem for S~B(ρ)\tilde S_{\mathrm B}(\rho) with ν=1\nu=1:

S~B+iκ44(2σS~B+ρS~B)Δρ2S~B+S~B2σS~B=0,-\tilde S_{\mathrm B}+i\frac{\kappa^4}{4}\left(\frac{2}{\sigma}\tilde S_{\mathrm B}+\rho\tilde S_{\mathrm B}'\right)-\Delta_\rho^2\tilde S_{\mathrm B}+|\tilde S_{\mathrm B}|^{2\sigma}\tilde S_{\mathrm B}=0,

subject to S~B(0)=S~B(0)=0\tilde S_{\mathrm B}'(0)=\tilde S_{\mathrm B}”'(0)=0 and S~B()=0\tilde S_{\mathrm B}(\infty)=0. Nontrivial profile existence conjecture. There exists a solution pair {S~B(ρ),κ~}\{\tilde S_{\mathrm B}(\rho),\tilde\kappa\} with S~B≢0\tilde S_{\mathrm B}\not\equiv0 and κ~>0\tilde\kappa>0. The paper presents this as a nonlinear eigenvalue conjecture; no proof of existence is given.

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Guy Baruch and Gadi Fibich, “Singular solutions of the L^2-supercritical biharmonic Nonlinear Schrodinger equation”, arXiv:1011.5522 (2010).

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