Sharp global well-posedness for the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with third order dispersion

Abstract

We consider the initial value problem (IVP) associated to the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with third-order dispersion \begin{equation*} \partial_{t}u+iα\partial^{2}_{x}u- \partial^{3}_{x}u+iβ|u|^{2}u = 0, \quad x,t \in \mathbb{R}, \end{equation*} for given data in the Sobolev space $H^s(\mathbb{R})$. This IVP is known to be locally well-posed for given data with Sobolev regularity $s>-\frac{1}{4}$ and globally well-posed for $s\ge 0$ [3]. For given data in $H^s(\mathbb{R})$, $0>s>-\frac{1}{4}$ no global well-posedness result is known. In this work, we derive an almost conserved quantity for such data and obtain a sharp global well-posedness result. Our result answers the question left open in [3].

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