Quasilinear Schrödinger Equations

Abstract: In this paper we prove local well-posedness for Quasi-linear Scrh\"odinger equations with initial data in unweighted Sobolev Spaces. For small initial data with minimal smoothness this has addressed by J. Marzuola, J. Metcalfe and D. Tataru. This work does not attempt to address the minimal regularity for initial data, but instead builds on the previous results of C. Kenig, G. Ponce, and L. Vega to remove the smallness condition in unweighted spaces. This is accomplished by developing a uncentered version of Doi's Lemma, which allows one to prove Kato type smoothing estimates. These estimates make it possible to achieve the necessary a priori linear results.