The focusing cubic NLS on exterior domains in three dimensions

We consider the focusing cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS) in the exterior Ω of a smooth, compact, strictly convex obstacle in three dimensions. We prove that the threshold for global existence and scattering is the same as for the problem posed on Euclidean space. Specifically, we prove that if E(u0)M(u0)<E(Q)M(Q) and ||u0||2||u0||2<\|\nabla Q||2||Q||2, the corresponding solution to the initial value problem with Dirichlet boundary conditions exists globally and scatters to linear evolutions asymptotically in the future and in the past. Here, Q(x) denotes the ground state for the focusing cubic NLS in ℝ3.