Local wellposedness for the quasilinear Schrödinger equations via the generalized energy method (2311.02556v2)

Abstract: We study the global Cauchy problem of the quasilinear Schr\"odinger equations, for which KENIG et al. (Invent Math, 2004; Adv Math, 2006) obtained short time local wellposedness with large data by pseudo-differential techniques and viscosity methods, while MARZUOLA et al. (Adv Math, 2012; Kyoto J Math, 2014; Arch Ration Mech Anal, 2021) improved the results by dispersive arguments. In this paper, we introduce the generalized energy method that can close the bounds by combining momentum and energy estimates and derive the results by viscosity methods. The whole arguments basically only involve integration by parts and Sobolev embedding inequalities, just like the classical local existence theorem for semilinear Schr\"odinger equations. For quadratic interaction problem with small data, we derive low regularity local wellposedness in the same function spaces as in the works of Kenig et al. For cubic interaction problem, we obtain the same low regularity results as in Marzuola et al. (Kyoto J Math, 2014).