Construction of smooth chiral finite-time blow-up solutions to Calogero--Moser derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation

We consider the Calogero--Moser derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (CM-DNLS), which is an $L^{2}$-critical nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with explicit solitons, self-duality, and pseudo-conformal symmetry. More importantly, this equation is known to be completely integrable in the Hardy space $L_{+}^{2}$ and the solutions in this class are referred to as \emph{chiral} solutions. A rigorous PDE analysis of this equation with complete integrability was recently initiated by G\'erard and Lenzmann. Our main result constructs smooth, chiral, and finite energy finite-time blow-up solutions with mass arbitrarily close to that of a soliton, answering the global regularity question for chiral solutions raised by G\'erard and Lenzmann. The blow-up rate obtained for these solutions is different from the pseudo-conformal rate. Our proof also gives a construction of a codimension one set of smooth finite energy initial data (but without addressing chirality) leading to the same blow-up dynamics. Our blow-up construction in the Hardy space might also be contrasted with the global well-posedness of the derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (DNLS), which is another integrable $L^{2}$-critical Schr\"odinger equation. The overall scheme of our proof is the forward construction of blow-up dynamics with modulation analysis. We begin with developing a linear theory for the near-soliton dynamics. We discover a nontrivial conjugation identity, which unveils a surprising connection from the linearized (CM-DNLS) to the 1D free Schr\"odinger equation, which is a crucial ingredient for overcoming the difficulties from the nonlocal nonlinearity. Another principal challenge in this work, the slow decay of the soliton, is overcome by introducing a trick of decomposing solutions depending on topologies, which we believe is of independent interest.