Modified scattering for the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with long-range potentials in one space dimension

Abstract

We consider the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with long-range linear potentials in one space dimension, and prove the modified scattering in the energy space for the associated final state problem with a prescribed small asymptotic profile. Compared with the leading term of the free solution, the asymptotic profile has an additional phase correction depending both on the long-range part of the potential and on the nonlinear term. The proof is based on a simple energy method and does not rely on global-in-time Strichartz estimates for Schrödinger equations with linear potentials. In particular, the class of potentials to which our theorem applies is large enough to accommodate slowly decaying negative potentials so that the associated Schrödinger operators may have negative eigenvalues.

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