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On Landis' conjecture for positive Schr\"odinger operators on graphs

Analysis of PDEs 2025-05-27 v2 Mathematical Physics Functional Analysis math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

In this note we study the Landis conjecture for positive Schr\"odin\-ger operators on graphs. More precisely, we prove a Landis-type result in the form of a decay criterion that ensures when H\mathcal{H}-harmonic functions for a positive Schr\"odinger operator H\mathcal{H} with potentials bounded from above by 1 1 are trivial. The positivity assumption on the operator allows us to impose slow decay across the entire graph, while requiring fast decay in only one direction, rather than throughout the whole graph. We then specifically look at the special cases of Zd \mathbb{Z}^{d} and regular trees for which we get a explicit decay criterion. Moreover, we consider the fractional analogue of the Landis conjecture on Zd \mathbb{Z}^{d} . Our approach relies on the discrete version of Liouville comparison principle which is also proved in this article.

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@article{arxiv.2408.02149,
  title  = {On Landis' conjecture for positive Schr\"odinger operators on graphs},
  author = {Ujjal Das and Matthias Keller and Yehuda Pinchover},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.02149},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

A remark on page 11 has been added, several typos are corrected, and the overall presentation is improved. The article has been accepted for publication in International Mathematics Research Notices

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