On an Euler-Schrödinger system appearing in laser-plasma interaction

Abstract

We consider the Cauchy problem for the barotropic Euler system coupled to a vector Schrödinger equation in the whole space. Assuming that the initial density and vector potential are small enough, and that the initial velocity is close to some reference vector field $u_0$ such that the spectrum of $D{u}_0$ is bounded away from zero, we prove the existence of a global-in-time unique solution with (fractional) Sobolev regularity. Moreover, we obtain some algebraic time decay estimates of the solution. Our work extends the papers by D. Serre and M. Grassin [11, 13, 19] and previous works by B. Ducomet and co-authors [4, 8] dedicated to the compressible Euler-Poisson system.