The initial-value problem for the cubic-quintic NLS with non-vanishing boundary conditions

Abstract

We consider the initial-value problem for the cubic-quintic NLS \[ (i\partial_t+Δ)ψ=α_1 ψ-α_{3}\vert ψ\vert^2 ψ+α_5\vert ψ\vert^4 ψ\] in three spatial dimensions in the class of solutions with $|ψ(x)|\to c >0$ as $|x|\to\infty$. Here $α_1$, $α_3$, $α_5$ and $c$ are such that $ψ(x)\equiv c$ is an energetically stable equilibrium solution to this equation. Normalizing the boundary condition to $ψ(x)\to 1$ as $|x|\to\infty$, we study the associated initial-value problem for $u=ψ-1$ and prove a scattering result for small initial data in a weighted Sobolev space.