Global solutions for 1D cubic defocusing dispersive equations: Part I

Abstract

This article is devoted to a general class of one dimensional NLS problems with a cubic nonlinearity. The question of obtaining scattering, global in time solutions for such problems has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, and many global well-posedness results have been proved for a number of models under the assumption that the initial data is both \emph{small} and \emph{localized}. However, except for the completely integrable case, no such results have been known for small but non-localized initial data. In this article we introduce a new, nonperturbative method, to prove global well-posedness and scattering for $L^2$ initial data which is \emph{small} but \emph{non-localized}. Our main structural assumption is that our nonlinearity is \emph{defocusing}. However, we do not assume that our problem has any exact conservation laws. Our method is based on a robust reinterpretation of the idea of interaction Morawetz estimates, developed almost 20 years ago by the I-team. In terms of scattering, we prove that our global solutions satisfy both global $L^6$ Strichartz estimates and bilinear $L^2$ bounds. This is a Galilean invariant result, which is new even for the classical defocusing cubic NLS. There, by scaling our result also admits a large data counterpart.