On well-posedness and concentration of blow-up solutions for the intercritical inhomogeneous NLS equation

Abstract: We consider the focusing inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"odinger (INLS) equation in $\mathbb{R}^N$ $$i \partial_t u +\Delta u + |x|^{-b} |u|^{2\sigma}u = 0,$$ where $N\geq 2$ and $\sigma$, $b>0$. We first obtain a small data global result in $H^1$, which, in the two spatial dimensional case, improves the third author result in [22] on the range of $b$. For $N\geq 3$ and $\frac{2-b}{N}<\sigma<\frac{2-b}{N-2}$, we also study the local well posedness in $\dot H^{s_c}\cap \dot H^1 $, where $s_c=\frac{N}{2}-\frac{2-b}{2\sigma}$. Sufficient conditions for global existence of solutions in $\dot H^{s_c}\cap \dot H^1$ are also established, using a Gagliardo-Nirenberg type estimate. Finally, we study the $L^{\sigma_c}-$norm concentration phenomenon, where $\sigma_c=\frac{2N\sigma}{2-b}$, for finite time blow-up solutions in $\dot H^{s_c}\cap \dot H^1$ with bounded $\dot H^{s_c}-$norm. Our approach is based on the compact embedding of $\dot H^{s_c}\cap \dot H^1$ into a weighted $L^{2\sigma+2}$ space.