One dimensional energy cascades in a fractional quasilinear NLS

Abstract

We consider the problem of transfer of energy to high frequencies in a quasilinear Schrödinger equation with sublinear dispersion, on the one dimensional torus. We exhibit initial data undergoing finite but arbitrary large Sobolev norm explosion: their initial norm is arbitrary small in Sobolev spaces of high regularity, but at a later time becomes arbitrary large. We develop a novel mechanism producing instability, which is based on extracting, via paradifferential normal forms, an effective equation driving the dynamics whose leading term is a non-trivial transport operator with non-constant coefficients. We prove that such operator is responsible for energy cascades via a positive commutator estimate inspired by Mourre's commutator theory.

This is the final version of the paper, published in Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis

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