Energy conservation and blowup of solutions for focusing Gross–Pitaevskii hierarchies

  • Thomas Chen

    Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, United States
  • Nataša Pavlović

    Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, United States
  • Nikolaos Tzirakis

    Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States

Abstract

We consider solutions of the focusing cubic and quintic Gross–Pitaevskii (GP) hierarchies. We identify an observable corresponding to the average energy per particle, and we prove that it is a conserved quantity. We prove that all solutions to the focusing GP hierarchy at the -critical or -supercritical level blow up in finite time if the energy per particle in the initial condition is negative. Our results do not assume any factorization of the initial data.

Cite this article

Thomas Chen, Nataša Pavlović, Nikolaos Tzirakis, Energy conservation and blowup of solutions for focusing Gross–Pitaevskii hierarchies. Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire 27 (2010), no. 5, pp. 1271–1290

DOI 10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2010.06.003