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Recent Results on the Cauchy Problem for Focusing andDefocusing Gross-Pitaevskii Hierarchies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2010

Thomas Chen  and
Nataša Pavlović
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Abstract

In this paper, we review some of our recent results in the study of the dynamics ofinteracting Bose gases in the Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) limit. Our investigations focus on thewell-posedness of the associated Cauchy problem for the infinite particle system describedby the GP hierarchy.

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Bose gasGross-Pitaevskii limitBBGKY hierarchynonlinear Schrödinger equationsmean field limit

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