Stability threshold conjecture for ground states of the trapped nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Let ngeq1ngeq 1, and let pnp_n^* denote the upper exponent from the paper. For +4n<p<pn+\frac{4}{n}<p<p_n^*, let ϕω\phi_\omega be the unique positive solution of

Δϕ+x2ϕ+ωϕϕp=0,xRn,-\Delta \phi+|x|^2\phi+\omega\phi-\phi^p=0,\qquad x\in\mathbb{R}^n,

with ϕω(x)0\phi_\omega(x)\to0 as x|x|\to\infty.

Stability threshold conjecture. For every pp satisfying +4n<p<pn+\frac{4}{n}<p<p_n^*, there exists ωp,n\omega_{p,n} such that ϕω\phi_\omega is stable whenever n<ωωp,n-n<\omega\leq\omega_{p,n} and unstable whenever ω>ωp,n\omega>\omega_{p,n}.

The question concerns the dynamical stability of the unique ground states in the L2L^2-supercritical range for the harmonic trapping potential. Stability is known near ω=n\omega=-n, while instability for sufficiently large ω\omega is known; the conjecture asserts that these regimes are separated by a single threshold.

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Milena Stanislavova and Atanas Stefanov, “Ground states for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation under a general trapping potential”, arXiv:2002.03822 (2020).

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