In this thesis, we will study non-linear dispersive equations. The primary focus will be on the construction of the positive-time wave operator for such equations. The positive-time wave operator problem arises in the study of the asymptotics of a partial differential equation. It is a map from a space of initial data X into itself, and is loosely defined as follows: Suppose that for a solution Ψlin to the dispersive equation with no non-linearity and initial data Ψ+ there exists a unique solution Ψ to the non-linear equation with initial data ΨO such that Ψ behaves as Ψlin as t→ ∞. Then the wave operator is the map W + that takes Ψ+/sub; to Ψ0. By its definition, W+ is injective. An important additional question is whether or not the map is also surjective. If so, then every non-linear solution emanating from X behaves, in some sense, linearly as it evolves (this is known as asymptotic completeness). Thus, there is some justification for treating these solutions as their much simpler linear counterparts. The main results presented in this thesis revolve around the construction of the wave operator(s) at critical non-linearities. We will study the #8220; semi-relativistic ” Schrëdinger equation as well as the Klein-Gordon-Schrëdinger system on R2. In both cases, we will impose fairly general quadratic non-linearities for which conservation laws cannot be relied upon. These non-linearities fall below the scaling required to employ such tools as the Strichartz estimates. We instead adapt the "first iteration method" of Jang, Li, and Zhang to our setting which depends crucially on the critical decay of the non-linear interaction of the linear evolution. To see the critical decay in our problem, careful analysis is needed to treat the regime where one has spatial and/or time resonance.

The goal of this thesis is to apply the theory of multilinear weighted Fourier estimates to nonlinear dispersive equations in order to tackle problems in regularity, well-posedness, and pointwise convergence of solutions. Dispersion of waves is a ubiquitous physical phenomenon that arises, among others, from problems in shallow-water propagation, nonlinear optics, quantum mechanics, and plasma physics. A natural tool for understanding the related physics is to study waves/signals simultaneously from both physical and spectral perspectives. Specifically, we will treat nonlinearities as multilinear operator perturbations, which (by the method of spacetime Fourier transforms), exhibit smoothing properties in norms defined to reflect the dispersive natures of the solutions. Our model equation is the quantum Zakharov system, which can be viewed as a variation on the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS). We investigate the model in various contexts (adiabatic limits, nonlinear Schrödinger limits, semi-classical limits). We additionally study a variation of Carleson's Fourier convergence problem in the context of pointwise convergence of the full Schrödinger operator with non-zero potential.

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We study the Cauchy problem of the derivative nonlinear Schrodinger equation in one space dimension. Using the method of inverse scattering, we prove global well-posedness of the derivative nonlinear Schrodinger equation for initial conditions in a dense and open subset of weighted Sobolev space that can support bright solitons.

It is proved that the initial value problem for a system of two Benjamin-Bona-Mahony equations coupled through both dispersive and nonlinear terms is locally and globally well posed in the Soboloev spaces Hs ×Hs with s ≥ 0 / Dado el problema de valor inicial para un sistema de dos ecuaciones de Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) acopladas a través de los términos dispersivos y no lineales, se demuestra que está bien colocado localmente y globalmente en los espacios Hs × Hs con s≥0.

Orientador: Ademir Pastor Ferreira / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Matemática Estatística e Computação Científica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-25T19:57:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andrade_ThiagoPinguellode_D.pdf: 2608603 bytes, checksum: 20935cf463b03d1c5c1390b127a42f4f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Nesta tese estudamos estabilidade orbital de ondas viajantes periódicas para modelos dispersivos. O estudo de ondas viajantes iniciou-se em meados do século XVIII quando John S. Russell estabeleceu que ondas de água em um canal raso possui evolução constante. A estratégia geral para se obter a estabilidade consiste em provar que a onda viajante em questão minimiza um funcional conservado restrito a uma certa variedade. No nosso contexto, seguindo tais ideias, minimizamos o funcional restrito a uma nova variedade. Embora acreditamos que a teoria possa ser aplicada a outros modelos, nos restringimos às equações de Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) com termo não linear fracionário e Korteweg-de Vries modificada (mKdV). Além disso, resultados similares para a equação de Gardner são obtidos, usando uma estreita relação que esta possui com a mKdV / Abstract: In this thesis we study the orbital stability of periodic traveling waves for dispersive models. The study of traveling waves started in the mid-18th century when John S. Russel established that the flow of water waves in a shallow channel has constant evolution. The general strategy to obtain stability consists in proving that the traveling wave in question minimizes a conserved functional restricted to a certain manifold. In our context, following such ideas, we minimize such a functional restricted to a new manifold. Although we believe our theory can be applied to other models, we deal with the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation with fractional nonlinear terms and modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation. Besides, similar stability results for the Gardner equation are obtained, using a close relation between this equation and the mKdV / Doutorado / Matematica / Doutor em Matemática