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The quintic NLS as the mean field limit of a Boson gas with three-body interactions

Presenter
February 24, 2010
Keywords:
  • Three-body
MSC:
  • 70F07
Abstract
Keywords: Gross-Pitaevskii hierarchy Abstract: In this talk we will discuss joint work with Thomas Chen on the dynamics of a boson gas with three-body interactions in dimensions d=1,2. We prove that in the limit as the particle number N tends to infinity, the BBGKY hierarchy of k-particle marginals converges to a limiting Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) hierarchy for which we prove existence and uniqueness of solutions. For factorized initial data, the solutions of the GP hierarchy are shown to be determined by solutions of a quintic nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Time permitting, we will briefly describe our new approach for studying well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for focusing and defocusing GP hierarchy.