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Some quantitative unique continuation results for eigenfunctions of the magnetic Schr\"odinger operator

Analysis of PDEs 2014-04-11 v3

Abstract

We prove quantitative unique continuation results for solutions of Δu+Wu+Vu=λu-\Delta u + W\cdot \nabla u + Vu = \lambda u, where λC\lambda \in \mathbb{C} and VV and WW are complex-valued decaying potentials that satisfy V(x)xN|V(x)| \lesssim \langle x\rangle^{-N} and W(x)xP|W(x)| \lesssim \langle x\rangle^{-P}. For M(R)=infx0=RuL2(B1(x0))M(R) = \inf_{|x_0| = R}||u||_{L^2(B_1(x_0))}, we show that if the solution uu is non-zero, bounded, and u(0)=1u(0) = 1, then M(R)exp(CRβ0(logR)A(R))M(R) \gtrsim \exp(-C R^{\beta_0}(\log R)^{A( R)}), where β0=max{22P,42N3,1}\beta_0 = \max\{2 - 2P, \frac{4-2N}{3}, 1\}. Under certain conditions on NN, PP and λ\lambda, 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 u,Vu, V and WW such that Δu+Wu+Vu=λu-\Delta u + W\cdot \nabla u + Vu = \lambda u, V(x)xN|V(x)| \lesssim \langle x\rangle^{-N}, W(x)xP|W(x)| \lesssim \langle x\rangle^{-P} and u(x)exp(cxβ0(logx)C)|u(x)| \lesssim \exp(-c|x|^{\beta_0}(\log |x|)^C).

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@article{arxiv.1209.5822,
  title  = {Some quantitative unique continuation results for eigenfunctions of the magnetic Schr\"odinger operator},
  author = {Blair Davey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.5822},
  year   = {2014}
}

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Final version as it appears in Communications in Partial Differential Equations