Unconditional optimal convergence of a relaxation Crank-Nicolson difference scheme for 2D space-fractional NLS
Abstract
In this paper, we develop a linearly implicit relaxation Crank-Nicolson difference scheme for the two-dimensional space-fractional nonlinear Schrödinger (SFNS) equation, where the fractional Laplacian is approximated by a simple fractional central difference scheme. The proposed scheme is uniquely solvable and conserves discrete mass for general real-valued nonlinear coefficients, and a modified discrete energy in the cubic case. By introducing a modified error system employing a cut-off technique, we establish the optimal-order error estimates without mesh-ratio restriction. Specifically, the primary variable achieves second-order temporal and spatial convergence in the discrete Hhα/2-norm, and the relaxation variable satisfies the same convergence in the discrete L2-norm. Some numerical experiments confirm the relevant theoretical results.
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BibTeX
@misc{ding2026unconditional,
title = {{Unconditional optimal convergence of a relaxation Crank-Nicolson difference scheme for 2D space-fractional NLS}},
author = {Lisen Ding and Dongling Wang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.00571},
eprint = {2611.00571},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00571},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Unconditional optimal convergence of a relaxation Crank-Nicolson difference scheme for 2D space-fractional NLS
AU - Lisen Ding
AU - Dongling Wang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.00571
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.00571
AB - In this paper, we develop a linearly implicit relaxation Crank-Nicolson difference scheme for the two-dimensional space-fractional nonlinear Schrödinger (SFNS) equation, where the fractional Laplacian is approximated by a simple fractional central difference scheme. The proposed scheme is uniquely solvable and conserves discrete mass for general real-valued nonlinear coefficients, and a modified discrete energy in the cubic case. By introducing a modified error system employing a cut-off technique, we establish the optimal-order error estimates without mesh-ratio restriction. Specifically, the primary variable achieves second-order temporal and spatial convergence in the discrete H_h^α/2-norm, and the relaxation variable satisfies the same convergence in the discrete L^2-norm. Some numerical experiments confirm the relevant theoretical results.
ER -