Instability of standing waves for a class of nonlinear Schrödinger equations

This paper discusses a class of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with different power nonlinearities. We first establish the existence of standing wave associated with the ground states by variational calculus. Then by the potential well argument and the concavity method, we get a sharp condition for blowup and global existence to the solutions of the Cauchy problem and answer such a problem: how small are the initial data, the global solutions exist? At last we prove the instability of standing wave by combing those results. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved