Long-range scattering for a critical homogeneous type nonlinear Schrödinger equation with time-decaying harmonic potentials

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the final state problem for the homogeneous type nonlinear Schrödinger equation with time-decaying harmonic potentials. The nonlinearity has the critical order and is not necessarily the form of a polynomial. In the case of the gauge-invariant power-type nonlinearity, the first author proves that the equation admits a nontrivial solution that behaves like a free solution with a logarithmic phase correction in [22]. In this paper, we extend his result into the case with the general homogeneous nonlinearity by the technique due to the Fourier series expansion introduced by Masaki and the second author [26]. To adapt the argument in the aforementioned paper, we develop a factorization identity for the propagator and require a little stronger decay condition for the Fourier coefficients arising from the harmonic potential. Moreover, in two or three dimensions, we improve the regularity condition of the final data in [26,29].