On well-posedness and blow-up in the generalized Hartree equation

Abstract: We study the generalized Hartree equation, which is a nonlinear Schr\"odinger-type equation with a nonlocal potential $iu_t + \Delta u + (|x|^{-b} \ast |u|^p)|u|^{p-2}u=0, x \in \mathbb{R}^N$.We establish the local well-posedness at the non-conserved critical regularity $\dot{H}^{s_c}$ for $s_c \geq 0$, which also includes the energy-supercritical regime $s_c>1$ (thus, complementing the work in [3], where the authors obtained the $H^1$ well-posedness in the intercritical regime together with classification of solutions under the mass-energy threshold). We next extend the local theory to global: for small data we obtain global in time existence and for initial data with positive energy and certain size of variance we show the finite time blow-up (blow-up criterion). Both of these results hold regardless of the criticality of the equation. In the intercritical setting the criterion produces blow-up solutions with the initial values above the mass-energy threshold. We conclude with examples showing currently known thresholds for global vs. finite time behavior.