Fundamental gap conjecture for stationary states of the dissipative rotational NLS equation

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Let m>0m>0, and let Sm\mathcal{S}_m denote the set of stationary solutions with total mass mm. Let QgsQ_{gs} be a ground state, and let E[Q]E[Q] denote the total energy of a stationary state QQ. Fundamental gap conjecture. There exists δ>0\delta>0 such that for any Q∈SmQ\in\mathcal{S}_m, either

Q=ei ϕQgsQ=e^{\mathrm{i}\mkern1mu\phi}Q_{gs}

for some ϕ∈R\phi\in\mathbb R, or

E[Q]≥E[Qgs]+δ.E[Q]\geq E[Q_{gs}]+\delta.

The conjecture asserts a uniform positive energy gap between the ground-state orbit under phase rotations and all other stationary states. Such a gap would support convergence of solutions with sufficiently low initial energy to the ground state, but the source does not establish whether it holds.

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Paolo Antonelli and Boris Shakarov, “Existence and Large Time Behavior for a Dissipative Variant of the Rotational NLS Equation”, arXiv:2305.14181 (2023).

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