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Dispersive Estimates for higher dimensional Schr\"odinger Operators with threshold eigenvalues II: The even dimensional case

Analysis of PDEs 2018-09-13 v2

Abstract

We investigate L1(Rn)L(Rn)L^1(\mathbb R^n)\to L^\infty(\mathbb R^n) dispersive estimates for the Schr\"odinger operator H=Δ+VH=-\Delta+V when there is an eigenvalue at zero energy in even dimensions n6n\geq 6. In particular, we show that if there is an eigenvalue at zero energy then there is a time dependent, rank one operator FtF_t satisfying FtL1Lt2n2\|F_t\|_{L^1\to L^\infty} \lesssim |t|^{2-\frac{n}{2}} for t>1|t|>1 such that eitHPacFtL1Lt1n2, for t>1.\|e^{itH}P_{ac}-F_t\|_{L^1\to L^\infty} \lesssim |t|^{1-\frac{n}{2}},\,\,\,\,\,\text{ for } |t|>1. With stronger decay conditions on the potential it is possible to generate an operator-valued expansion for the evolution, taking the form \begin{align*} e^{itH} P_{ac}(H)=|t|^{2-\frac{n}{2}}A_{-2}+ |t|^{1-\frac{n}{2}} A_{-1}+|t|^{-\frac{n}{2}}A_0, \end{align*} with A2A_{-2} and A1A_{-1} mapping L1(Rn)L^1(\mathbb R^n) to L(Rn)L^\infty(\mathbb R^n) while A0A_0 maps weighted L1L^1 spaces to weighted LL^\infty spaces. The leading-order terms A2A_{-2} and A1A_{-1} are both finite rank, and vanish when certain orthogonality conditions between the potential VV and the zero energy eigenfunctions are satisfied. We show that under the same orthogonality conditions, the remaining tn2A0|t|^{-\frac{n}{2}}A_0 term also exists as a map from L1(Rn)L^1(\mathbb R^n) to L(Rn)L^\infty(\mathbb R^n), hence eitHPac(H)e^{itH}P_{ac}(H) satisfies the same dispersive bounds as the free evolution despite the eigenvalue at zero.

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@article{arxiv.1409.6328,
  title  = {Dispersive Estimates for higher dimensional Schr\"odinger Operators with threshold eigenvalues II: The even dimensional case},
  author = {Michael Goldberg and William R. Green},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.6328},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

This article continues the work of "Dispersive Estimates for higher dimensional Schr\"odinger Operators with threshold eigenvalues I: The odd dimensional case" by the authors to the case of even dimensions. To appear in J. Spectr. Theory

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