Large-data $L^2$-decay for attractive-dissipative nonlinear Schrödinger equations without the strong dissipative condition

Abstract

We prove a large-data $L^2$-decay estimate for nonlinear dissipative Schrödinger equations with attractive-dissipative power nonlinearity. The main difficulty is the lack of sign definiteness of the standard energy when $\Re \hat{I}»<0$, which prevents the usual energy argument from directly yielding a uniform gradient bound. We introduce an augmented energy, obtained by adding a suitable multiple of the decreasing $L^2$-norm to the standard energy. This produces an additional dissipative term and gives a direct uniform-in-time $H^1$ bound without the iteration argument used in previous works. Consequently, for arbitrary initial data in the weighted energy space $\hat{I}\pounds =H^1\cap \mathcal{F}{H}^1$, we obtain the decay rate previously known under the strong dissipative condition throughout the sharp decay range $1<p\le 1+2/d$. This removes the remaining restriction $p\le 1+4/(3d)$ in the attractive-dissipative case.

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