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Quantitative observability for the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with an anharmonic oscillator

Analysis of PDEs 2025-01-03 v1 Optimization and Control

Abstract

This paper studies the observability inequalities for the Schr\"{o}dinger equation associated with an anharmonic oscillator H=\d2\dx2+xH=-\frac{\d^2}{\d x^2}+|x|. We build up the observability inequality over an arbitrarily short time interval (0,T)(0,T), with an explicit expression for the observation constant CobsC_{obs} in terms of TT, for some observable set that has a different geometric structure compared to those discussed in \cite{HWW}. We obtain the sufficient conditions and the necessary conditions for observable sets, respectively. We also present counterexamples to demonstrate that half-lines are not observable sets, highlighting a major difference in the geometric properties of observable sets compared to those of Schr\"{o}dinger operators H=\d2\dx2+x2mH=-\frac{\d^2}{\d x^2}+|x|^{2m} with m1m\ge 1. Our approach is based on the following ingredients: First, the use of an Ingham-type spectral inequality constructed in this paper; second, the adaptation of a quantitative unique compactness argument, inspired by the work of Bourgain-Burq-Zworski \cite{Bour13}; third, the application of the Szeg\"{o}'s limit theorem from the theory of Toeplitz matrices, which provides a new mathematical tool for proving counterexamples of observability inequalities.

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@article{arxiv.2501.01258,
  title  = {Quantitative observability for the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with an anharmonic oscillator},
  author = {Shanlin Huang and Gengsheng Wang and Ming Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.01258},
  year   = {2025}
}

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38 pages

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