Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 2008(2008), No. 15, pp. 1-38. Title: Asymptotic behavior for a quadratic nonlinear Schrodinger equation Authors: Nakao Hayashi (Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan) Pavel I. Naumkin (Univ. Nacional Autonoma, Mexico) Abstract: We study the initial-value problem for the quadratic nonlinear Schrodinger equation $$\displaylines{ iu_{t}+\frac{1}{2}u_{xx}=\partial _{x}\overline{u}^{2},\quad x\in \mathbb{R},\; t>1, \cr u(1,x)=u_{1}(x),\quad x\in \mathbb{R}. }$$ For small initial data $u_{1}\in \mathbf{H}^{2,2}$ we prove that there exists a unique global solution $u\in \mathbf{C}([1,\infty );\mathbf{H}^{2,2})$ of this Cauchy problem. Moreover we show that the large time asymptotic behavior of the solution is defined in the region $|x|\leq C\sqrt{t}$ by the self-similar solution $\frac{1}{\sqrt{t}}MS(\frac{x}{\sqrt{t}})$ such that the total mass $$ \frac{1}{\sqrt{t}}\int_{\mathbb{R}}MS(\frac{x}{\sqrt{t}}) dx=\int_{\mathbb{R}}u_{1}(x)dx, $$ and in the far region $|x|>\sqrt{t}$ the asymptotic behavior of solutions has rapidly oscillating structure similar to that of the cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equations. Submitted March 19, 2007. Published February 01, 2008. Math Subject Classifications: 35B40, 35Q55. Key Words: Nonlinear Schrodinger equation; large time asymptotic; self-similar solutions.