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Dispersive decay bounds for the SSH model on the half-line

Mathematical Physics 2026-05-12 v1 Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We study the Schr\"odinger flow for the SSH model, a class of self-adjoint discrete dimer lattice Hamiltonians on the half-line. Using oscillatory integral techniques, we prove dispersive time-decay estimates, which quantify the spreading of energy throughout the lattice for a localized initial condition. Furthermore, we determine precise dependence of the constants in the decay rates on the parameters of the Hamiltonian. The analysis is complicated by the fact that as a consequence of the boundary condition, the expression for the propagator contains oscillatory integrals with nonintegrable singularities.

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@article{arxiv.2605.08372,
  title  = {Dispersive decay bounds for the SSH model on the half-line},
  author = {Remy Kassem and Amir Sagiv and Michael I. Weinstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.08372},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

96 pages, 5 figures

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