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Sharp constructions of eigenfunctions of the magnetic Schr\"odinger operator

Analysis of PDEs 2014-04-11 v2

Abstract

We prove sharpness of quantitative unique continuation results for solutions of Δu+Wu+Vu=\lau-\Delta u + W\cdot \nabla u + V u = \la u, where \la\C\la \in \C and VV and WW are complex-valued decaying potentials that satisfy V(x)<x>N|V(x)| \lesssim <x>^{-N} and W(x)<x>P|W(x)| \lesssim <x>^{-P}. For M(R)=infx0=RuL2(B1(x0))M(R) = \inf_{|x_0| = R}||u||_{L^2(B_1(x_0))}, it was shown in a companion paper that if the solution uu is non-zero, bounded, and u(0)=1u(0) = 1, then M(R)exp(CR\be0(logR)A(R))M(R) \gtrsim \exp(-C R^{\be_0}(\log R)^{A(R)}), where \be0=max22P,(42N)/3,1\be_0 = max{2 - 2P, (4-2N)/3, 1}. Under certain conditions on NN, PP, \la\la, and the dimension, we construct examples (some of which are in the style of Meshkov) to prove that this estimate for M(R)M(R) is sharp. That is, we construct functions uu, VV and WW such that Δu+Wu+Vu=\lau-\Delta u + W\cdot \nabla u + V u = \la u, V(x)<x>N,|V(x)| \lesssim <x>^{-N}, W(x)<x>P|W(x)| \lesssim <x>^{-P} and u(x)exp(cx\be0(logx)C)|u(x)| \lesssim \exp(-c|x|^{\be_0}(\log |x|)^C).

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@article{arxiv.1212.4085,
  title  = {Sharp constructions of eigenfunctions of the magnetic Schr\"odinger operator},
  author = {Blair Davey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.4085},
  year   = {2014}
}

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The contents of this paper have been combined with another article, arXiv:1209.5822