On Asymptotic Stability in Energy Space of Ground States for Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations

Abstract

We consider nonlinear Schrödinger equations $$iu_t +\Delta u +\beta (|u|^2)u=0\, ,\, \text{for} (t,x)\in \mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{R}^d,$$ where d ≥ 3 and β is smooth. We prove that symmetric finite energy solutions close to orbitally stable ground states converge to a sum of a ground state and a dispersive wave as t → ∞ assuming the so called the Fermi Golden Rule (FGR) hypothesis. We improve the “sign condition” required in a recent paper by Gang Zhou and I.M.Sigal.