Orbital stability of standing waves for nonlinear fractional Schrödinger equation with unbounded potential

Abstract

In this paper, the orbital stability of standing waves for nonlinear fractional Schrödinger equation is considered. By constructing the constrained functional extreme-value problem, the existence of standing waves is studied. With the help of the orbital stability theories presented by Grillakis, Shatah and Strauss, the orbital stability of standing waves is determined by the sign of a discriminant. To our knowledge, it is the first time that the abstract orbital stability theories presented by Grillakis, Shatah and Strauss are applied to study the stability of solutions for fractional evolution equation.