Almost global existence for cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equations in one space dimension

Abstract: We consider non-gauge-invariant cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations in one space dimension. We show that initial data of size $\varepsilon$ in a weighted Sobolev space lead to solutions with sharp $L_x^\infty$ decay up to time $\exp(C\varepsilon^{-2})$. We also exhibit norm growth beyond this time for a specific choice of nonlinearity.