A note on cascade flux laws for the stochastically-driven nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Abstract

In this note we point out some simple sufficient (plausible) conditions for ‘turbulence’ cascades in suitable limits of damped, stochastically-driven nonlinear Schrödinger equation in a d-dimensional periodic box. Simple characterizations of dissipation anomalies for the wave action and kinetic energy in rough analogy with those that arise for fully developed turbulence in the 2D Navier–Stokes equations are given and sufficient conditions are given which differentiate between a ‘weak’ turbulence regime and a ‘strong’ turbulence regime. The proofs are relatively straightforward once the statements are identified, but we hope that it might be useful for thinking about mathematically precise formulations of the statistically-stationary wave turbulence problem.