TY - JOUR ID - Han2012 LB - Han2012 AU - Han, Pigong TI - Global well-posedness and scattering for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the nonradial case ST - Global well-posedness and scattering for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the nonradial case JO - Opuscula Math. JA - Opuscula Math. JF - Opuscula Mathematica PY - 2012 VL - 32 IS - 3 SP - 487 EP - 504 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2012.32.3.487 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2012.32.3.487 AB - The energy-critical, focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the nonradial case reads as follows: \[i\partial_t u = -\Delta u -|u|^{\frac{4}{N-2}}u,\quad (x,0)=u_0 \in H^1 (\mathbb{R}^N),\quad N\geq 3.\] Under a suitable assumption on the maximal strong solution, using a compactness argument and a virial identity, we establish the global well-posedness and scattering in the nonradial case, which gives a positive answer to one open problem proposed by Kenig and Merle [Invent. Math. 166 (2006), 645–675]. KW - critical energy KW - focusing Schrödinger equation KW - global well-posedness KW - scattering SN - 1232-9274 ER -