Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 2021 (2021), No. 24, pp. 1-13. Title: Small data blow-up of solutions to nonlinear Schrodinger equations without gauge invariance in L^2 Authors: Yuanyuan Ren (Dongguan Univ. of Technology, Dongguan, Guangdong, China) Yongsheng Li (South China Univ.of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China) Abstract: In this article we study the Cauchy problem of the nonlinear Schrodinger equations without gauge invariance $$\displaylines{ i\partial_{t}u+\Delta u=\lambda(|u|^{p_1}+|v|^{p_2}), \quad (t,x)\in[0,T)\times \mathbb{R}^n,\cr i\partial_{t}v+\Delta v=\lambda(|u|^{p_2}+|v|^{p_1}), \quad (t,x)\in [0,T)\times \mathbb{R}^n, }$$ where 1<p1, p2<1+4/n and $\lambda\in \mathbb{C}\backslash\{0\}$. We first prove the existence of a local solution with initial data in L2(Rn). Then under a suitable condition on the initial data, we show that the L2-norm of the solution must blow up in finite time although the initial data are arbitrarily small. As a by-product, we also obtain an upper bound of the maximal existence time of the solution. Submitted February 15, 2018. Published March 31, 2021. Math Subject Classifications: 35Q55, 35B44. Key Words: Nonlinear Schrodinger equations; weak solution; blow up of solutions.