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Svetlana Roudenko

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arXiv2026

Nonlinear Schrödinger equation on a unit ball in one and two dimensions

We investigate the nonlinear Schrödinger equation on a unit ball in one and two dimensions with Dirichlet boundary condition, focusing on ground states, their limiting behavior, stability and perturbation dynamics. Our computations illustrate the stabilizing effect of the Dirichlet boundary compared with the whole-space setting. In the subcritical and critical cases, the mass curves have positive slope and the considered perturbations show recurrent dynamics near the ground state family. In the critical case, the mass of the ground states increases towards the mass of the whole-space ground state. Staying below the whole-space ground state mass makes perturbations of the bounded-domain ground states stable. In the supercritical case, the computations reveal a {\it new} branching phenomenon: the mass curve develops a turning point, separating stable and unstable branches. In 1D we prove existence of a global maximum in the mass curve and derive an integral equation for the turning points. Perturbations of the stable branch remain close to the corresponding ground state, while perturbations of the unstable branch lead to finite-time blow-up or recurrent oscillations between neighborhoods of at least two coherent profiles. We prove sufficient blow-up conditions in the critical and supercritical cases, in particular, for every fixed $A>1$, the data $A Q_b$ blows up for sufficiently large $b$ in these cases. Furthermore, the Dirichlet boundary reflects the solution, preventing mass from escaping via radiation, while coherent oscillations persist even for small initial data, thus, supporting a bounded-domain soliton-resolution conjecture.

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arXiv2026

Robustness of mKdV Breathers: A Numerical Perspective

We systematically investigate breather solutions in the modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation via numerical simulations. We show that the breather solutions are stable under a variety of perturbations, including amplitude changes, modifications of internal parameters, and perturbations of the nonlinearity of the equation. Our results are not only consistent with the known analytical studies on the stability of breathers in integrable systems, extending them further, but also provide numerical evidence that such breather-type structures can persist and remain stable over the simulated time scales in some non-integrable settings with symmetric potentials.

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arXiv2026

Ground states to bi-harmonic nonlinear Schrödinger equations with competing dispersion

We study ground-state solutions of the 4th order nonlinear Schrödinger equation with mixed dispersion via the elliptic profile equation $Δ^2 Q + 2a ΔQ + bQ - |Q|^αQ=0$, focusing on symmetry breaking of least-action ground states in 2D in the regime $a=1$, $b=1+ε$, $0<ε\ll 1$, where nonradiality was proved by Lenzmann and Weth [26]. We establish a quotient-to-mass relation converting small-$ε$ asymptotics of the Weinstein quotient into mass asymptotics, in any dimension and symmetry class. In 1D we prove the sharp small-$ε$ rate for the quotient for every $α>0$ and deduce the rates for the mass, action and potential norm. In two and higher dimensions the same relation, combined with the quotient asymptotics of Lenzmann-Weth [26] and Mandel-Oliveira e Silva [27], gives the mass rates for the Knapp-type nonradial and the radial ground states. The resulting threshold $α_K(d)=8/(d+1)$ coincides for $d\leq3$ with the existence of normalized minimizers threshold of Fernández-Jeanjean-Mandel-Mariş [16], connecting the least-action and mass-constrained formulations. We complement this with a detailed numerical study. For the cubic nonlinearity we construct a nonradial branch from a Knapp-type example, compare it with radial and angular-mode branches, and verify the predicted rates. For the quartic nonlinearity, turning points and branching are present in the mass-energy diagrams in radial or two- and four-peak nonradial solutions. Here, although least-action ground states are nonradial for small $ε$, the normalized ground states of the same mass appear radial, a consequence of branching. For $α\geq4$ we find only radial ground states, consistent with the conjectured sharp form of the Stein-Tomas inequality on $\mathbb S^1$, equivalent to the radial and nonradial masses having the same leading coefficient.

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arXiv2026

The 3D critical Zakharov--Kuznetsov equation: blow-up and soliton dynamics

We study the full three-dimensional dynamics of the $L^2$-critical Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation with the fractional nonlinearity $|u|^{4/3}u$, equivalently $u^{7/3}$ for real-valued functions. This equation is a higher-dimensional extension of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation. In the critical setting solutions to this 3D ZK equation may blow up in finite time or exhibit global time dynamics. The novelties of this work is to treat a non-integer power and to study the dynamics of solutions in a higher dimension. We first review the finite time blow-up in 2D critical ZK, then do a formal analysis of the slightly mass-supercritical blow-up dynamics, deriving the corrections to the blow-up rate and profile for the critical ZK equation in any dimension. We then perform a computational study of solutions, utilizing full 3D numerical simulations. In particular, we use a Fourier pseudospectral discretization and an integrating factor fourth-order Runge-Kutta method on a full three-dimensional grid. A multi-GPU implementation makes it possible to follow blow-up solutions in a full 3D setting. We examine perturbations of the ground state, Gaussian data, and nonsymmetric two-bump configurations. The computations show dispersive and concentrating regimes, in both cases with radiation emitted in a conic-type region opposite to the direction of propagation and convergence of the concentrating core toward a rescaled ground-state profile. The two-bump experiments also demonstrate that total mass alone does not determine the blow-up dynamics. We discuss the numerical evidence for the predicted blow-up rate and identify the pre-asymptotic and resolution limitations that remain near the blow-up time.

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arXiv2026

Review of well-posedness methods for the 1D nonlinear Schrödinger equation with an application to combined nonlinearities

We consider the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in one dimension with nonlinearities of type $|u|^αu$ for any power $α>0$ and review two different methods for obtaining solutions, namely, local well-posedness, with initial data either in $L^2$ or $H^1$, or in the weighted subspace of $H^1$. One approach is based on the Strichartz estimates, and thus, $H^1$ well-posedness typically holds for nonlinearities with power $α\geq 1$. The other one is a direct application of weighted estimates commuting with derivatives and a certain infimum condition on the initial data, and thus, can treat nonlinearities for the whole range $0 < α< \infty$; furthermore, it can handle a sum of different nonlinearities. We then conclude with an application of the second approach to the NLS with {\it finitely} many combined nonlinearities, important for physical applications (e.g., in laser optics), as it is more challenging, if at all possible, to obtain local well-posedness with the first method due to the lack of scaling invariance.

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arXiv2026

The nonlinear Schrödinger equation with combined nonlinearities in 1D

We consider the one-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation $$ iu_t + u_{xx} + \mathcal{N}(u)u=0, \quad x,t \in \mathbb R, $$ with the nonlinearity term that is expressed as a sum of powers, possibly infinite: $$ \mathcal{N}(u) = \sum d_k |u|^{α_k}, \quad α_k > 0. $$ We first investigate the local well-posedness of this equation for any positive powers of $α_k$ in a certain weighted class of initial data, subset of $H^1 (\mathbb R)$. For that we use an approach of Cazenave-Naumkin [19], thus, avoiding any Strichartz estimates. Then, using the pseudo-conformal transformation, we extend the local result to the global one for the initial data with a quadratic phase. Furthermore, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of such global solutions and prove scattering for data with the quadratic phase $e^{ib|x|^2}$ with sufficiently large positive $b$, in $H^1(\mathbb R)$. One of the advantages of considering an infinite sum in the nonlinearity term is being able to consider exponential nonlinearities, such as $e^{γ|u|^{k}} u$, as well as sine or cosine nonlinearities, and obtain well-posedness in those cases, the first such result for most of those nonlinearities. To conclude, we show numerical simulations for various examples of combined nonlinearities, including the double nonlinearity and an exponential one, then investigate the behavior of solutions with positive or negative initial $b$ in a quadratic phase data. Furthermore, we also show that a ground state in the NLS equation with combined nonlinearities no longer provides a sharp threshold for global behavior such as scattering vs. finite time blow-up, instead the equation has a much richer dynamics.

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arXiv2026

Spectral property for the 2D Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation

We discuss a spectral property for the virial operator of the 2D Zakharov-Kuznetsov (ZK) equation. This is a crucial ingredient to establish blow-up or asymptotic stability of solitary waves in higher-dimensional problems. This model in 3D setting was originally introduced by Zakharov and Kuznetsov in plasma physics, and is also a higher-dimensional generalization of the well-known Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation. The problem of stability of solitary waves in ZK equation or stable blow-up in modified ZK (or KdV-type) equation is an important physical question, for which virial operators and their spectral properties are the essential elements of the analysis. In this paper we investigate this problem analytically and reduce it to verifying numerically only some signs of inner products and certain eigenvalues.

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arXiv2026

Multi-domain spectral approach for Zakharov-Kuznetsov equations in 3D with cylindrical symmetry

We present a novel numerical framework for studying nonlinear dispersive equations in higher-dimensional settings, specifically designed for solutions featuring traveling waves along a preferred axis (or field-aligned traveling waves). Using the three-dimensional generalized Zakharov-Kuznetsov (gZK) equation as a model, we convert it into cylindrical coordinates and implement a domain decomposition strategy. By partitioning the computational domain into distinct regions based on expected solution behavior, we significantly reduce computational complexity while maintaining the high resolution necessary for capturing small-scale dynamics. Another key innovation of our method is the ability to efficiently handle fractional nonlinearities, specifically, the critical power $p = 7/3$ in 3D, which typically introduces significant computational overhead and numerical instabilities that compromise simulation accuracy. Using this framework, we are able to investigate the dynamics of solutions (with cylindrical symmetry) close to the ground state soliton and show that for the 3D critical ZK equation, the ground state serves as the sharp threshold for global vs. finite time existence of solutions. Our method successfully tracks the profiles of these singular solutions, providing new insights into the dynamics of wave collapse in three-dimensional magnetized media.

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arXiv2026

The energy-critical stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation: well-posedness and blow-up

We investigate the focusing and defocusing energy-critical stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation, subject to random perturbations in the form of either additive or multiplicative (Stratonovich) noise. We establish local well-posedness for random or deterministic initial data $u_0$ in $\dot{H}^1(\mathbb{R}^n)$ or $H^1(\mathbb{R}^n)$, depending on the noise type. In the focusing case we provide quantitative estimates regarding the existence time and probability. Moreover, we derive blow-up criteria for solutions with positive energy in both cases of noise, provided that the noise intensity is sufficiently small, showing that blow-up occurs before a certain given positive time with positive probability, thus, extending deterministic results of Kenig-Merle [24] for the energy-critical NLS equation to the stochastic setting.

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arXiv2026

Dynamics of solutions in the 1d bi-harmonic nonlinear Schrödinger equation

We consider the one dimensional 4th order, or bi-harmonic, nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation, namely, $i u_t - Δ^2 u - 2a Δu + |u|^α u = 0, ~ x,a \in \R$, $α>0$, and investigate the dynamics of its solutions for various powers of $α$, including the ground state solutions and their perturbations, leading to scattering or blow-up dichotomy when $a \leq 0$, or to a trichotomy when $a>0$. Ground state solutions are numerically constructed, and their stability is studied, finding that the ground state solutions may form two branches, stable and unstable, which dictates the long-term behavior of solutions. Perturbations of the ground states on the unstable branch either lead to dispersion or the jump to a stable ground state. In the critical and supercritical cases, blow-up in finite time is also investigated, and it is conjectured that the blow-up happens with a scale-invariant profile (when $a=0$) regardless of the value of $a$ of the lower dispersion. The blow-up rate is also explored.

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arXiv2025

Soliton profiles: Classical Numerical Schemes vs. Neural Network - Based Solvers

We present a comparative study of classical numerical solvers, such as Petviashvili's method or finite difference with Newton iterations, and neural network-based methods for computing ground states or profiles of solitary-wave solutions to the one-dimensional dispersive PDEs that include the nonlinear Schrödinger, the nonlinear Klein-Gordon and the generalized KdV equations. We confirm that classical approaches retain high-order accuracy and strong computational efficiency for single-instance problems in the one-dimensional setting. Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) are also able to reproduce qualitative solutions but are generally less accurate and less efficient in low dimensions than classical solvers due to expensive training and slow convergence. We also investigate the operator-learning methods, which, although computationally intensive during training, can be reused across many parameter instances, providing rapid inference after pretraining, making them attractive for applications involving repeated simulations or real-time predictions. For single-instance computations, however, the accuracy of operator-learning methods remains lower than that of classical methods or PINNs, in general.

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arXiv2025

Well-posedness of the focusing stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation: $L^2$-critical and supercritical cases

We study the focusing $L^2$-critical and supercritical stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation subject to additive or multiplicative noise. We investigate global or long time behavior of solutions in $H^1$, which would correspond to global well-posedness in the deterministic case, with either deterministic or random initial data, and establish quantitative information about the well-posedness time, its probability and bounds on the solution in both cases. We then give criteria for finite time blow-up with positive probability for an $H^1$-valued initial data with positive energy in both cases.

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arXiv2025

Blow-up in finite or infinite time of the 2D cubic Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation

We prove that near-threshold negative energy solutions to the 2D cubic ($L^2$-critical) focusing Zakharov-Kuznetsov (ZK) equation blow-up in finite or infinite time. The proof consists of several steps. First, we show that if the blow-up conclusion is false, there are negative energy solutions arbitrarily close to the threshold that are globally bounded in $H^1$ and are spatially localized, uniformly in time. In the second step, we show that such solutions must in fact be exact remodulations of the ground state, and hence, have zero energy, which is a contradiction. This second step, a nonlinear Liouville theorem, is proved by contradiction, with a limiting argument producing a nontrivial solution to a (linear) linearized ZK equation obeying uniform-in-time spatial localization. Such nontrivial linear solutions are excluded by a local-viral space-time estimate. The general framework of the argument is modeled on Merle [29] and Martel & Merle [24], who treated the 1D problem of the $L^2$-critical gKdV equation. Several new features are introduced here to handle the 2D ZK case.

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arXiv2024

On the well-posedness of the periodic fractional Schrödinger equation

We consider the periodic fractional nonlinear Schrödinger equation $$ iu_t -(-Δ)^{\frac{s}{2}} u + \mathcal{N}(|u|)u=0, \quad x\in \mathbb{T}^N,\, \, t \in \mathbb R, \, \, s>0, $$ where the nonlinearity term is expressed in two ways: the first one $\mathcal{N}\in C^J(\mathbb R^+)$, whose derivatives have a certain polynomial decay, e.g., $\mathcal{N}(|u|)=\log(|u|)$; the second one is given by a sum of powers, possibly infinite, $$ \mathcal{N}(|u|) = \sum a_k |u|^{γ_k}, \quad γ_k \in \mathbb{R}, ~~ a_k \in \mathbb{C}, $$ which includes examples such as $\mathcal{N}(|u|) \, u =\frac{u}{|u|^γ},$ $γ>0$. By using standard properties of periodic Sobolev spaces $H^J(\mathbb{T}^N)$, $J>0$, we study the local well-posedness for the Cauchy problems of the above equations when initial data satisfy a non-vanishing condition $\inf\limits_{x\in \mathbb{T}^N}|u_0(x)|>0$.

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arXiv2024

Stability and instability of solitary waves in fractional generalized KdV equation in all dimensions

We study stability of solitary wave solutions for the fractional generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation $$ \partial_t u- \partial_{x_1} D^αu+ \tfrac{1}{m}\partial_{x_1}(u^m)=0, ~ (x_1,\dots,x_d)\in \mathbb{R}^d, \, \, t\in \mathbb{R}, \, \, 0<α<2, $$ in any spatial dimension $d\geq 1$ and nonlinearity $m>1$. The arguments developed here are independent of the spatial dimension and rely on the new estimates for spatial decay of ground states and their regularity. In the $L^2$-subcritical case, we prove the orbital stability of solitary waves using the concentration-compactness argument, the commutator estimates and expansions of nonlocal operator $D^α$ in several variables. In the $L^2$-supercritical case, we show that solitary waves are unstable. More precisely, the instability is obtained by constructing an explicit sequence of initial conditions that move away from a soliton orbit in finite time, this is shown in conjunction with the modulation and truncation arguments, and incorporating the decay and regularity of the ground states. As a consequence, in 1D we show the instability of solitary waves of the supercritical generalized Benjamin-Ono equation ($α=1$) and the dispersion-generalized Benjamin-Ono equation ($1<α<2$); furthermore, new results on the instability are obtained in the weaker dispersion regime when $\frac{1}{2}<α<1$. This work should be of interest in studying stability of solitary waves and other coherent structures in a variety of dispersive equations that involve nonlocal operators.

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arXiv2022

Threshold solutions for the Hartree equation

We consider the focusing $5$d Hartree equation, which is $L^2$-supercritical, with finite energy initial data, and investigate the solutions at the mass-energy threshold. We establish the existence of special solutions following the work of Duyckaerts-Roudenko [11] for the $3$d focusing cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS). In particular, apart from the ground state solution $Q$, which is global but non-scattering, there exist special solutions $Q^+$ and $Q^-$, which in one time direction approach $Q$ exponentially, and in the other time direction $Q^+$ blows up in finite time and $Q^-$ exists for all time, exhibiting scattering behavior. We then characterize all radial threshold solutions either as scattering and blow up solutions in both time directions (similar to the solutions under the mass-energy threshold, see Arora-Roudenko [3]), or as the special solutions described above. To obtain the existence and classification result, in this paper we perform a thorough and meticulous investigation of the spectral properties of the linearized operator associated to the Hartree equation.

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arXiv2022

Interaction with an obstacle in the 2d focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation

We present a numerical study of solutions to the $2d$ cubic and quintic focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the exterior of a smooth, compact and strictly convex obstacle (a disk) with Dirichlet boundary condition. We first investigate the effect of the obstacle on the behavior of solutions traveling toward the obstacle at different angles and with different velocities directions. We introduce a new concept of weak and strong interactions of the solutions with the obstacle. Next, we study the existence of blow-up solutions depending on the type of the interaction and show how the presence of the obstacle changes the overall behavior of solutions (e.g., from blow-up to global existence), especially in the strong interaction case, as well as how it affects the shape of solutions compared to their initial data, (e.g., splitting into transmitted and reflected parts). We also investigate the influence of the size of the obstacle on the eventual existence of blow-up solutions in the strong interaction case in terms of the transmitted and the reflected parts of the mass. Moreover, we show that the sharp threshold for global existence vs. finite time blow-up solutions in the mass critical case in the presence of the obstacle is the same as the one given by Weinstein for {\rm{NLS}} in the whole Euclidean space $\R^d$. Finally, we construct new Wall-type initial data that blows up in finite time after a strong interaction with an obstacle and having a very distinct dynamics compared with all other blow-up scenarios and dynamics for the {\rm{NLS}} in the whole Euclidean space $\R^d$.

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