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Transverse stability of line soliton and characterization of ground state for wave guide Schrödinger equations

In this paper, we study the transverse stability of the line Schrödinger soliton under a full wave guide Schrödinger flow on a cylindrical domain $\mathbb R\times\mathbb T$. When the nonlinearity is of power type $|ψ|^{p-1}ψ$ with $p>1$, we show that there exists a critical frequency $ω_{p} >0$ such that the line standing wave is stable for $0<ω< ω_{p}$ and unstable for $ω> ω_{p}$. Furthermore, we characterize the ground state of the wave guide Schrödinger equation. More precisely, we prove that there exists $ω_{*} \in (0, ω_{p}]$ such that the ground states coincide with the line standing waves for $ω\in (0, ω_{*}]$ and are different from the line standing waves for $ω\in (ω_{*}, \infty)$.