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Dispersive estimates for Dirac Operators in dimension four with obstructions at threshold energies

Analysis of PDEs 2025-06-11 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We investigate L1LL^1\to L^\infty dispersive estimates for the Dirac equation with a potential in four spatial dimensions. We classify the structure of the obstructions at the thresholds as being composed of an at most two dimensional space of resonances per threshold, and finitely many eigenfunctions. Similar to the Schr\"odinger evolution, we prove the natural t2t^{-2} decay rate when the thresholds are regular. When there is a threshold resonance or eigenvalue, we show that there is a time dependent, finite rank operator satisfying FtL1L(logt)1\|F_t\|_{L^1\to L^\infty}\lesssim (\log t)^{-1} for t>2t>2 such that eitHP(H)FtL1Lt1for t>2, \|e^{it\mathcal H}P(\mathcal H)-F_t\|_{L^1\to L^\infty}\lesssim t^{-1} \quad \text{for } t>2, with PP a projection onto a subspace of the absolutely continuous spectrum in a small neighborhood of the thresholds. We further show that the operator Ft=0F_t=0 if there is a threshold eigenvalue but no threshold resonance. We pair this with high energy bounds for the evolution and provide a complete description of the dispersive bounds.

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@article{arxiv.2506.08831,
  title  = {Dispersive estimates for Dirac Operators in dimension four with obstructions at threshold energies},
  author = {William R. Green and Connor Lane and Benjamin Lyons},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.08831},
  year   = {2025}
}

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