Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

In this talk, we will discuss the global well-posedness issue of the defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS). It is known that for subcritical and critical nonlinearities, the equation is globally well-posed on Euclidean spaces and some bounded domains. The supercritical nonlinearities are by far less understood; few partial or conditional results were established. On the other hand, probabilistic approaches (Gibbs measures, fluctuation-dissipation ...) were developed during the last decades to deal with low regularity settings in the context of dispersive PDEs. However, these approaches fail to apply the supercritical nonlinearities.  The aim of this talk is to present a new probabilistic approach recently developed by the author in the context of the energy supercritical NLS. We will review some known results and briefly present earlier probabilistic methods, then discuss the new method and the almost sure global well-posedness consequences for the energy supercritical NLS. The results that will be presented are partly join with Xueying Yu.