Ill-posedness of the cubic nonlinear half-wave equation and other fractional NLS on the real line

In this paper, we study ill-posedness of cubic fractional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations. First, we consider the cubic nonlinear half-wave equation (NHW) on $\mathbb R$. In particular, we prove the following ill-posedness results: (i) failure of local uniform continuity of the solution map in $H^s(\mathbb R)$ for $s\in (0,\frac 12)$, and also for $s=0$ in the focusing case; (ii) failure of $C^3$-smoothness of the solution map in $L^2(\mathbb R)$; (iii) norm inflation and, in particular, failure of continuity of the solution map in $H^s(\mathbb R)$, $s<0$. By a similar argument, we also prove norm inflation in negative Sobolev spaces for the cubic fractional NLS. Surprisingly, we obtain norm inflation above the scaling critical regularity in the case of dispersion $|D|^\beta$ with $\beta>2$.Comment: Introduction expanded, references updated. We would like to thank Nobu Kishimoto for his comments on the previous version and for pointing out the related article of Iwabuchi and Uriy

Numerical simulations for the energy-supercritical nonlinear wave equation

We carry out numerical simulations of the defocusing energy-supercritical nonlinear wave equation for a range of spherically-symmetric initial conditions. We demonstrate numerically that the critical Sobolev norm of solutions remains bounded in time. This lends support to conditional scattering results that have been recently established for nonlinear wave equations.Comment: 28 pages, 13 figures. New references and new cases adde

The defocusing energy-supercritical NLS in four space dimensions

We consider a class of defocusing energy-supercritical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations in four space dimensions. Following a concentration-compactness approach, we show that for $1<s_c<3/2$, any solution that remains bounded in the critical Sobolev space $\dot{H}_x^{s_c}(\R^4)$ must be global and scatter. Key ingredients in the proof include a long-time Strichartz estimate and a frequency-localized interaction Morawetz inequality.Comment: 52 page