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Profiles and Quantization of the Blow Up Mass for Critical Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

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We consider finite time blow up solutions to the critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation For a suitable class of initial data in the energy space H1, we prove that the solution splits in two parts: the first part corresponds to the singular part and accumulates a quantized amount of L2 mass at the blow up point, the second part corresponds to the regular part and has a strong L2 limit at blow up time.

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Communicated by P. Constantin

Part of this work has been supported by grant DMS-0111298.

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Merle, F., Raphael, P. Profiles and Quantization of the Blow Up Mass for Critical Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation. Commun. Math. Phys. 253, 675–704 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-004-1198-0

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