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Sharp blowup rate for NLS with a repulsive harmonic potential

Abstract

In this paper, we are concerned with the blowup solutions of the \(L^{2}\) critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a repulsive harmonic potential. By using the results recently obtained by Merle and Raphaël and by Carles’ transform we establish in a quite elementary way universal and sharp upper and lower bounds of the blowup rate for the blowup solutions of the aforementioned equation. As an application, we derive upper and lower bounds on the \(L^{r}\)-norms of the singular solutions.

1 Introduction

In this paper, we study the following Cauchy problem:

$$ i \partial _{t} u+\frac{1}{2}\Delta u = - \frac{\omega ^{2}}{2} \vert x \vert ^{2}u- \vert u \vert ^{4/n}u, \quad x\in \mathbb{R}^{n}, t \in [0,T), $$
(1.1)

where ω is a strictly positive parameter, \(0< T\leq \infty \), Δ is the Laplace operator, and \(u=u(x,t)\) is a function of space and time. As a first motivation for studying (1.1), replacing the repulsive potential \(-\frac{\omega ^{2}}{2}|x|^{2}\) by \(\frac{\omega ^{2}}{2}|x|^{2}\), we get a model describing the Bose–Einstein condensate with attractive inter-particle interactions under a magnetic trap [14, 17].

We impose the initial data

$$ {u}_{| t=0} =u_{0}, \quad x\in \mathbb{R}^{n}.$$
(1.2)

A variety of results exist in this case; we mention, for example, the local well-posedness for (1.1) established in [2]. Let \(u_{0} \in \Sigma \). There exist \(T>0\) and a unique maximal solution \(u\in C([0,T]; \Sigma )\) to the Cauchy problem (1.1). It is maximal in the sense that if \(T<\infty \), then u blows up at T, that is, \(\underset{t \rightarrow T}{\lim }\|\nabla _{x} u(\cdot ,t)\|_{L^{2}}= \infty \). Furthermore, for all \(t\in [0,T)\) (the maximal existence interval), we have the following conservation laws.

  1. (i)

    Conservation of mass:

    $$ \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}}= \Vert u_{0} \Vert _{L^{2}}. $$
    (1.3)
  2. (ii)

    Conservation of energy:

    $$\begin{aligned} H_{\omega }\bigl(u(t)\bigr) =&\frac{1}{2} \int \vert \nabla _{x}u \vert ^{2}\,dx- \frac{\omega ^{2}}{2} \int \vert x \vert ^{2} \vert u \vert ^{2}\,dx-\frac{1}{1+\frac{2}{n}} \int \vert u \vert ^{2+\frac{4}{n}}\,dx \\ =&H_{\omega }(u_{0}). \end{aligned}$$
    (1.4)

The existence of blowup solutions for a class of initial data isproved in [1], and, last but not least, some dynamical properties of the blowup solutions were studied in [68, 18, 2022].

Another interesting aspect of this equation is its relation to the following problem known as the \(L^{2}\)-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation:

$$ i \partial _{s} v+\frac{1}{2}\Delta v = - \vert v \vert ^{4/n}v, \quad y\in \mathbb{R}^{n}, s\in [0,S). $$
(1.5)

The link between problems (1.1) and (1.5) emanates from the work of Carles [2]. As for (1.1), the initial value problem (1.5) has been studied extensively; we refer the reader to [3] for the basic results. One of the major breakthrough as far was accomplished by Merle and Raphaël. In a series of papers [911], they succeeded in proving upper and lower bounds on the blowup rate suggested by numerical simulations for a class of initial data in \(H^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{n})\). This was done under some positivity condition on an explicit quadratic form. In this paper, we combine the ideas of Merle and Raphaël, Carles, and Zhu and Li to establish the exact upper and lower bounds on the blowup rate for the blowup solutions of (1.1).

The paper is organized as follows. In Sect. 2, we present some notations and the results obtained by Merle and Raphaël in connection with (1.5), and then we focus on Carles’ work on the Cauchy problem (1.1). We conclude the section with the transform linking the two problems. In Sect. 3, we state the main results of this paper and proceed to their proofs. Section 4 is devoted to an application of our main theorems.

2 Notations and preliminaries

In this paper, for simplicity, we abbreviate \(L^{r}(\mathbb{R}^{n})\) and \(H^{1}(\mathbb{R}^{n})\) by \(L^{r}\) and \(H^{1}\), respectively. We define

  1. (i)

    \(\Sigma =\{ u \in H^{1}; |x|u \in L^{2} \}\) and

  2. (ii)

    \((u,w)= \int _{\mathbb{R}^{n}} u(x) \bar{w}(x)\,dx\), \(u, w \in L^{2}\).

We further recall some established facts about Cauchy problems (1.1) and (1.5) that are relevant in our study. First, we begin with Merle and Raphaël’s celebrated result concerning the sharp upper and lower bounds on the blowup rate for blowup solutions to problem (1.5), and, second, we focus on Carles’ work in relation with problem (1.1). We conclude the section with the relation between the two problems.

2.1 Sharp blowup rate for Eq. (1.5)

As mentioned in the introduction, the results of Merle and Raphaël were based on the following spectral property of some explicit quadratic form.

2.1.1 Spectral property

Let \(n\geq 1\). Consider two real Schrödinger operators

$$ \mathcal{L}_{1}=-\Delta +\frac{2}{n} \biggl( \frac{4}{n}+1 \biggr) Q^{ \frac{4}{n}-1}y\cdot \nabla Q,\qquad \mathcal{L}_{2}=-\Delta + \frac{2}{n} Q^{\frac{4}{n}-1}y \cdot \nabla Q, $$

and the real quadratic form \(H(\epsilon ,\epsilon )=(\mathcal{L}_{1}\epsilon _{1},\epsilon _{1})+( \mathcal{L}_{2}\epsilon _{2},\epsilon _{2})\), where \(\epsilon =\epsilon _{1}+i\epsilon _{2} \in H^{1}\). There exists a universal constant \(\delta >0\) such that for all \(\epsilon \in H^{1}\), if \((\epsilon _{1},Q)=(\epsilon _{1},Q_{1})=(\epsilon _{1},yQ)=( \epsilon _{2},Q_{1})=(\epsilon _{2},Q_{2})=(\epsilon _{2},\nabla Q)= 0 \), then

$$ H(\epsilon ,\epsilon )\geq \delta \biggl( \int \vert \nabla \epsilon \vert ^{2}+ \int \vert \epsilon \vert ^{2} e^{-2^{-} \vert y \vert }\,dy \biggr). $$

Here Q is the ground state, that is, the unique \(H^{1}\)-positive and radially symmetric function solution to the scalar field equation \(-\frac{1}{2}\Delta Q+Q-|Q|^{4/n}Q=0\) (see [5, 15] for more detail), \(Q_{1}=\frac{n}{2}Q+y\cdot \nabla Q\), \(Q_{2}=\frac{n}{2}Q_{1}+y\cdot \nabla Q_{1}\), and \(0<2^{-}<2\) is an arbitrary real number.

The above property was proved in [9] for \(n=1\) m wich is due to an explicit expression of the ground state in one dimension. In [4] the spectral property was checked numerically up to \(n=5\).

Based on the spectral conjecture, Merle and Raphaël proved the following theorem.

Theorem 2.1

Let \(n=1\) or \(n\geq 2\) and assume that the spectral property holds. There exist \(\alpha ^{*}>0\) and a universal constant \(C>0\) such that the following is true. Let \(v(0,x)=u_{0}\in H^{1}\) be such that

$$ 0< \alpha _{0}= \int \vert u_{0} \vert ^{2}\,dx - \int Q^{2}\,dx < \alpha ^{*},\qquad H_{0}(u_{0})< \frac{1}{2} \biggl( \frac{ \vert \operatorname{Im} (\int \bar{u_{0}} \nabla u_{0} ) \vert }{ \Vert u_{0} \Vert _{L^{2}}} \biggr)^{2}. $$

Let v be the unique maximal solution to Eq. (1.5) with initial data \(v(0,x)=u_{0}\). Then v blows up in finite time \(S>0\), and

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{y} v(s) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} \leq C \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (S-s) \vert }{S-s} \biggr)^{\frac{1}{2}} \quad \textit{as } s \rightarrow S^{-}. $$

Theorem 2.1 states in particular that if the initial data \(\psi \in H^{1}\) has a slightly supercritical mass and a strictly negative energy, then the corresponding maximal solution v to Eq. (1.5) blows up in finite time with lnln rate of blowup. This is a step toward a proof of the negative energy conjecture. We note that the latter was proved in some particular cases by Ogawa and Tsutsumi [12, 13].

Let us now turn to the result of Merle and Raphaël [10] for the lower bound.

Theorem 2.2

Let \(n=1\) or \(n\geq 2\) and assume that the spectral property holds. There exist \(\alpha ^{*}>0\) and a universal constant \(C>0\) such that the following is true. Let \(v(0,x)=u_{0}\in H^{1}\) be such that

$$ 0< \alpha _{0}= \int \vert u_{0} \vert ^{2}\,dx - \int Q^{2}\,dx < \alpha ^{*}. $$

Let v be the unique maximal solution to Eq. (1.5) with initial data \(v(0,x)=u_{0}\), and assume that it blows up in finite time \(S>0\). Then we have the following lower bound on the blowup rate:

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{y} v(s) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} \geq C \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (S-s) \vert }{S-s} \biggr)^{\frac{1}{2}}\quad \textit{as } s \rightarrow S^{-}. $$

2.2 Carles’ transform

One of the main interests of problem (1.1) is its relation to (1.5). This was shown by Carles [2]. We have the following:

Proposition 2.3

Let v solve the initial value problem (1.5). Define u by

$$ u(t,x)=\frac{1}{(\cosh (\omega t))^{n/2}}e^{i\frac{\omega }{2}|x|^{2} \tanh (\omega t)} v \biggl( \frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega }, \frac{x}{\cosh (\omega t)} \biggr). $$
(2.1)

Then u solves (1.1). In particular, if the solution to (1.5) is unique, then so is the solution to (1.1), and it is given by (2.1).

Using transform (2.1), Carles proved the following:

Theorem 2.4

Let \(u_{0} \in \Sigma \). Assume that the solution to problem (1.5) blows up at time \(S>0\). Then:

  1. (i)

    If \(\omega \geq \frac{1}{S}\), then (1.1) has a unique global solution in \(C(\mathbb{R}_{+},\Sigma )\).

  2. (ii)

    If \(\omega <\frac{1}{S}\), then the solution to (1.1) blows up at time \(\frac{\mathrm{arg tanh}(\omega S)}{\omega }>S\).

3 Sharp blow-up rate for Eq. (1.1)

We come now to the principal section of this article. We begin with the following theorem on the sharp upper bound on the blow-up rate for singular solutions to (1.1).

Theorem 3.1

Let \(n=1\) or \(n\geq 2\) and assume that the spectral property holds. There exist \(\alpha ^{*}>0\) and a universal constant \(C>0\) such that the following is true. Let \(u_{0} \in \Sigma \) be such that

$$ 0< \alpha _{0}= \int \vert u_{0} \vert ^{2}\,dx - \int Q^{2}\,dx < \alpha ^{*},\qquad H_{0}(u_{0})< \frac{1}{2} \biggl( \frac{ \vert \operatorname{Im} (\int \bar{u_{0}} \nabla u_{0} ) \vert }{ \Vert u_{0} \Vert _{L^{2}}} \biggr)^{2}. $$

Then there exists \(\omega _{0}>0\) such that for all \(\omega \in ]0,\omega _{0}[\), if u is the unique maximal solution to (1.1) with initial data \(u_{0}\), then u blows up in finite time \(T>0\), and

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x} u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} \leq C \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (T-t) \vert }{T-t} \biggr)^{\frac{1}{2}} \quad \textit{as } t\rightarrow T^{-}. $$

The proof of Theorem 3.1 is fairly easy; it is in fact a combination of the results presented in the previous section.

Proof

Let \(\alpha ^{*}\) and C be as in Theorem 2.1. Let \(u_{0} \in \Sigma \) satisfy the above hypothesis. Let v be the unique maximal solution to (1.5) with initial data \(u_{0}\). We know from Theorem 2.1 that v blows up in finite time \(S>0\) and satisfies the following sharp upper bound on its blowup rate:

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{y} v(s) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} \leq C \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (S-s) \vert }{S-s} \biggr)^{\frac{1}{2}} \quad \text{as } s \rightarrow S^{-}. $$

Let \(\omega _{0}>0\) be such that \(\omega _{0} S < \frac{1}{2}\). Take \(\omega \in ]0,\omega _{0}[\) and define u by Carles’ transform. It is clear that u is the unique maximal solution to (1.1) with initial data \(u_{0}\). Moreover, u blows up in finite time \(T=\frac{\arg \tanh (\omega S)}{\omega }\).

We now proceed in two steps.

Step 1

Let \(t \in [0,T)\). We have

$$\begin{aligned} \biggl\Vert \nabla _{y} v \biggl(\frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}} &\leq C \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (S-\frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } ) \vert }{S-\frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega }} \biggr)^{\frac{1}{2}} \\ &\leq C \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (\frac{\tanh (\omega T)-\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } ) \vert }{\frac{\tanh (\omega T)-\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega }} \biggr)^{\frac{1}{2}} \quad \text{as } t\rightarrow T^{-}. \end{aligned}$$

A straightforward calculation gives

$$ \frac{\ln \vert \ln (\frac{\tanh (\omega T)-\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } ) \vert }{\frac{\tanh (\omega T)-\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega }} \underset{t \to T}{\sim } \frac{\ln \vert \ln (\frac{T-t}{\cosh ^{2}(\omega T)} ) \vert }{\frac{T-t}{\cosh ^{2}(\omega T)}}.$$

Hence

$$\begin{aligned} \biggl\Vert \nabla _{y} v \biggl(\frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}} &\leq C \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (\frac{T-t}{\cosh ^{2}(\omega T)} ) \vert }{\frac{T-t}{\cosh ^{2}(\omega T)}} \biggr)^{\frac{1}{2}} \\ &\leq C \cosh (\omega T) \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (\frac{T-t}{\cosh ^{2}(\omega T)} ) \vert }{T-t} \biggr)^{\frac{1}{2}} \end{aligned}$$

as \(t\rightarrow T^{-}\). Note that

$$ \cosh (\omega T)=\cosh \bigl(\arg \tanh (\omega S) \bigr) \leq \cosh \bigl(\arg \tanh (\omega _{0} S) \bigr) \leq \cosh \bigl( \arg \tanh (1/2)\bigr), $$

so

$$ \biggl\Vert \nabla _{y} v \biggl(\frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}} \leq C \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (\frac{T-t}{\cosh ^{2}(\omega T)} ) \vert }{T-t} \biggr)^{\frac{1}{2}} \quad \text{as } t\rightarrow T^{-}, $$

with \(C>0\) being a universal constant.

Elementary manipulations of the term \(\ln |\ln (\frac{T-t}{\cosh ^{2}(\omega T)} ) |\) show that it is less than \(2 \ln |\ln (T-t ) |\) for t close enough (from the left) to T. Finally, we obtain the estimate

$$ \biggl\Vert \nabla _{y} v \biggl( \frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}} \leq C \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (T-t ) \vert |}{T-t} \biggr)^{\frac{1}{2}} \quad \text{as } t\rightarrow T^{-} $$
(3.1)

for some universal constant C.

Step 2

Calculating \(\nabla _{x} u\) using Carles’ transform (2.1), we get

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} \leq \omega \cosh (\omega t) \biggl\Vert yv \biggl(\frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}} +\frac{1}{\cosh (\omega t)} \biggl\Vert \nabla _{y} v \biggl( \frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}}. $$

Using results from [16], we estimate the first term in the right hand-side of this inequality as follows:

$$ \biggl\Vert yv \biggl(\frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2} \leq C(\omega ,u_{0}),\quad \forall t \in [0,T), $$

where \(C(\omega ,u_{0})\) denotes a constant depending on ω and \(u_{0}\). Hence

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} \leq \omega C(\omega ,u_{0})\cosh ( \omega t) + \frac{1}{\cosh (\omega t)} \biggl\Vert \nabla _{y} v \biggl( \frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}} $$

for all \(t \in [0,T)\). We know from the previous step that \(\cosh (\omega T) \leq \cosh (\arg \tanh (1/2))= M \), and hence for all \(t \in [0,T)\),

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} \leq \omega M C(\omega ,u_{0}) +\frac{1}{\cosh (\omega t)} \biggl\Vert \nabla _{y} v \biggl( \frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}}. $$

Since \(\|\nabla _{x}u(t)\|_{L^{2}}\underset{t \to T}{\longrightarrow } \infty \), we have

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} \leq \frac{1}{2} \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} + \biggl\Vert \nabla _{y} v \biggl( \frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}} $$

for t close enough to T. Here we used the fact that \(\cosh (x)\geq 1\) for all \(x \in \mathbb{R}\). From (3.1) we arrive at

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} \leq C \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (T-t ) \vert |}{T-t} \biggr)^{\frac{1}{2}} \quad \text{as } t \rightarrow T^{-}, $$
(3.2)

which is the announced bound. This completes the proof of Theorem 3.1 □

Now we state a result analogous to Theorem 2.2 for solutions to (1.1).

Theorem 3.2

Let \(n=1\) or \(n\geq 2\) and assume that the spectral property holds. Then there exist \(\alpha ^{*}>0\) and a universal constant \(C>0\) such that the following is true. Let \(u_{0} \in H^{1}\) be such that

$$ 0< \alpha _{0}= \int \vert u_{0} \vert ^{2}\,dx - \int Q^{2}\,dx < \alpha ^{*}. $$
(3.3)

Let u be the unique maximal solution to (1.1) with initial data \(u_{0}\), and assume that it blows up in finite time \(T>0\). Then we have the following lower bound on the blowup rate:

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x} u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} \geq C \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (T-t) \vert }{T-t} \biggr)^{\frac{1}{2}} \quad \textit{as } t\rightarrow T^{-}. $$
(3.4)

Proof

Let \(\alpha ^{*}\) and C be as in Theorem 2.2. Let \(u_{0} \in \Sigma \) satisfy the above hypothesis. Let u be the unique maximal solution to (1.1) with initial data \(u_{0}\) and assume that it blows up in finite time T. Let v be the unique maximal solution to (1.5) with initial data \(u_{0}\) related to u by Carles’ transform (2.1). From Theorem 2.2, since v blows up in finite time \(S>0\), we deduce that it satisfies the following lower bound on its bolwup rate:

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{y} v(s) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} \geq C \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (S-s) \vert }{S-s} \biggr)^{\frac{1}{2}} \quad \text{as } s \rightarrow S^{-}. $$

Here the blowup time is S is given by Carles’ transform

$$ S=\frac{\tanh (\omega T)}{\omega }. $$

As in step 1 of the previous proof, after some elementary calculations, we get the estimate

$$ \biggl\Vert \nabla _{y} v \biggl( \frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}} \geq C \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (T-t ) \vert |}{T-t} \biggr)^{\frac{1}{2}} \quad \text{as } t\rightarrow T^{-} $$
(3.5)

for some universal constant \(C>0\). With the same notation as in the proof of Theorem 3.1, we get

$$\begin{aligned} \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} &\geq \frac{1}{\cosh (\omega t)} \biggl\Vert \nabla _{y} v \biggl( \frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}} -\omega \cosh (\omega t) \biggl\Vert yv \biggl( \frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}} \\ &\geq \frac{1}{M} \biggl\Vert \nabla _{y} v \biggl( \frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}}-\omega M C( \omega ,u_{0}). \end{aligned}$$

Since \(\|\nabla _{x}u(t)\|_{L^{2}}\underset{t \to T}{\longrightarrow } \infty \), we have

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} \geq \frac{1}{M} \biggl\Vert \nabla _{y} v \biggl( \frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}} - \frac{1}{2} \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} \quad \text{as } t \rightarrow T^{-}. $$

Combining this inequality with (3.5), we obtain

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x} u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} \geq C \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (T-t) \vert }{T-t} \biggr)^{\frac{1}{2}} \quad \text{as } t\rightarrow T^{-} $$

for some universal constant \(C>0\). This establishes the lower bound for singular solutions to (1.1). □

4 Further discussion

We simply obtain upper and lower bounds on the \(L^{r}\)-norms for blowup solutions without using the rate of \(L^{2}\)-concentration for NLS with potential established in [19].

Corollary 4.1

If all the assumptions in Theorem 3.1are satisfied, then there exists a universal constant \(C>0\) such that for any r with \(2< r< \infty \), we have

$$ \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{r}} \leq C \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (T-t) \vert }{T-t} \biggr)^{ \frac{n(r-2)}{4 r}} \quad \textit{as } t\rightarrow T^{-}. $$

Proof

We have the following Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality

$$ \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{r}} \leq C \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{1-\delta (r)} \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x} u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{\delta (r)},\quad \forall t \in [0,T), $$

where \(\delta (r)=n (\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{r} )\). Applying Theorem 3.1 yields

$$ \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{r}} \leq C \Vert u_{0} \Vert _{L^{2}}^{1-\delta (r)} \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (T-t) \vert }{T-t} \biggr)^{\frac{\delta (r)}{2}} \quad \text{as } t\rightarrow T^{-}, $$

where we used the conservation of mass.

A simple calculation gives \(\frac{\delta (r)}{2}=\frac{n(r-2)}{4 r}\), which proves the desired result. □

Corollary 4.2

If all the assumptions in Theorem 3.2are satisfied, then there exists a universal constant \(C>0\) such that for any r with \(2< r< \infty \), we have

$$ \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{r}} \geq C \biggl( \frac{\ln \vert \ln (T-t) \vert }{T-t} \biggr)^{\frac{n(r-2)}{4 r}} \quad \textit{as } t\rightarrow T^{-}. $$

Proof

Suppose first that \(2< r\leq 2+\frac{4}{n}\). This allows us to write the Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequality

$$ \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2+\frac{4}{n}}}^{2+\frac{4}{n}} \leq C \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2-\mu } \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{r}}^{\frac{4}{n}+\mu },\quad \forall t \in [0,T), $$

where \(\mu =\frac{4r-8}{2n-r(n-2)}\). By conservation of energy and the above inequality we obtain, for all \(t \in [0,T)\),

$$\begin{aligned} \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2} \leq{}& 2 H_{\omega }(u_{0})+\omega ^{2} \bigl\Vert xu(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2}+\frac{2}{1+\frac{2}{n}} \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2+ \frac{4}{n}}}^{2+\frac{4}{n}} \\ \leq{}& 2 H_{0}(u_{0})+\omega ^{2} \cosh ^{2}(\omega t) \biggl\Vert yv \biggl( \frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2} \\ & {}+\frac{2C}{1+\frac{2}{n}} \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2-\mu } \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{r}}^{\frac{4}{n}+\mu }, \end{aligned}$$

where in the second inequality, we used the relation

$$ \bigl\Vert xu(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2}=\cosh ^{2}( \omega t) \biggl\Vert yv \biggl( \frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2} $$

and the fact that \(H_{\omega }(u_{0})\leq H_{0}(u_{0})\). Using the same notations as in the previous section, we have, for all \(t \in [0,T)\),

$$ \biggl\Vert yv \biggl(\frac{\tanh (\omega t)}{\omega } \biggr) \biggr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2} \leq C(\omega ,u_{0}) $$

and \(\cosh (\omega t) \leq \cosh (\arg \tanh (1/2))= M \). Therefore

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2} \leq 2 H_{0}(u_{0})+M^{2} \omega ^{2} C( \omega ,u_{0})+\frac{2C}{1+\frac{2}{n}} \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2- \mu } \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{r}}^{\frac{4}{n}+\mu } $$

for all \(t \in [0,T)\). Since \(\|\nabla _{x}u(t)\|_{L^{2}}\underset{t \to T}{\longrightarrow } \infty \), we have

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2} \leq \frac{1}{2} \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2}+ \frac{2C}{1+\frac{2}{n}} \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{2-\mu } \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{r}}^{ \frac{4}{n}+\mu } \quad \text{as } t \rightarrow T^{-} $$

or, equivalently,

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}} \leq C \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{r}}^{ \frac{\frac{4}{n}+\mu }{\mu }} \quad \text{as } t\rightarrow T^{-} $$

for some universal constant \(C>0\). Since \(\frac{\frac{4}{n}+\mu }{\mu }\delta (r)=1\), we get

$$ \bigl\Vert \nabla _{x}u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{\delta (r)} \leq C \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{r}} \quad \text{as } t\rightarrow T^{-}. $$

We conclude using the lower bound on the blowup rate. Suppose now \(2+\frac{4}{n}< r < \infty \). A similar argument as before, combined with the following Hölders inequality, yields the result:

$$ \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2+\frac{4}{n}}}^{2+\frac{4}{n}} \leq C \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{r}}^{ \frac{4r}{n(r-2)}} \bigl\Vert u(t) \bigr\Vert _{L^{2}}^{ \frac{2 (r- (\frac{4}{n}+2 ) )}{r-2}},\quad \forall t \in [0,T). $$

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Zhou, R. Sharp blowup rate for NLS with a repulsive harmonic potential. J Inequal Appl 2021, 2 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13660-020-02535-1

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