Asymptotic behavior and life-span estimates for the damped inhomogeneous nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Abstract: We are interested in the behavior of solutions to the damped inhomogeneous nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation $ i\partial_tu+\Delta u+\mu|x|^{-b}|u|^{\alpha}u+iau=0$, $\mu \in\mathbb{C} $, $b>0$, $a \in \mathbb{C}$ such that $\Re \textit{e}(a) \geq 0$, $\alpha>0$. We establish lower and upper bound estimates of the life-span. In particular for $a\geq 0$, we obtain explicit values $a_,\; a^$ such that if $a<a_*$ then blow up occurs, while for $a>a^*,$ global existence holds. Also, we prove scattering results with precise decay rates for large damping. Some of the results are new even for $b=0.$