Global well-posedness and scattering for the mass critical nonlinear Schr{ö}dinger equation with mass below the mass of the ground state

Abstract

In this paper we prove that the focusing, $d$-dimensional mass critical nonlinear Schr{ö}dinger initial value problem is globally well-posed and scattering for $u_0\in L^2({\mathbf{R}}^d)$, $\Vert u_0{\Vert }_{L^2({\mathbf{R}}^d)}<\Vert Q{\Vert }_{L^2({\mathbf{R}}^d)}$, where $Q$ is the ground state, and $d\ge 1$. We first establish an interaction Morawetz estimate that is positive definite when $\Vert u_0{\Vert }_{L^2({\mathbf{R}}^d)}<\Vert Q{\Vert }_{L^2({\mathbf{R}}^d)}$, and has the appropriate scaling. Next, we will prove a frequency localized interaction Morawetz estimate similar to the estimates made in \cite{D2}, \cite{D3}, \cite{D4}. See also \cite{CKSTT4} for the energy critical case. Since we are considering an $L^2$ - critical initial value problem we will localize to low frequencies.

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