Strong ill-posedness for fractional Hartree and cubic NLS Equations

Abstract: We consider fractional Hartree and cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations on Euclidean space $\mathbb R^d$ and on torus $\mathbb T^d$. We establish norm inflation (a stronger phenomena than standard ill-posedness) at every initial data in Fourier amalgam spaces with negative regularity. In particular, these spaces include Fourier-Lebesgue, modulation and Sobolev spaces. We further show that this can be even worse by exhibiting norm inflation with an infinite loss of regularity. To establish these phenomena, we employ a Fourier analytic approach and introduce new resonant sets corresponding to the fractional dispersion $(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}$. In particular, when dispersion index $\alpha$ is large enough, we obtain norm inflation {above} scaling critical regularity in some of these spaces. It turns out that our approach could treat both equations (Hartree and power-type NLS) in a unified manner. The method should also work for a broader range of nonlinear equations with Hartree-type nonlinearity.