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Slow dispersion in Floquet-Dirac Hamiltonians

Analysis of PDEs 2026-03-31 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study dispersive decay for non-autonomous Hamiltonian systems. While the general theory for dispersion in such non-autonomous systems is largely open, it was shown \cite{kraisler2025time} that there exists a time-periodically forced one-dimensional Dirac equation with unusually slow dispersive decay rate of t1/5t^{-1/5}. It is to be expected that such behavior is not generic and requires a very particular forcing term; we provide a more general ansatz and systematic procedure to construct such an equation with a dispersive decay rate no faster than t1/10t^{-1/10}. Our limitations are purely algebraic and it stands to reason that arbitrarily slow decay, tεt^{-\varepsilon} for every ε>0\varepsilon > 0, should be achievable.

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@article{arxiv.2603.28715,
  title  = {Slow dispersion in Floquet-Dirac Hamiltonians},
  author = {Anthony Bloch and Amir Sagiv and Stefan Steinerberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.28715},
  year   = {2026}
}
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