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Uncertainty principle for discrete Schr\"odinger evolution on graphs

Analysis of PDEs 2016-12-13 v2

Abstract

We consider the Schr\"odinger evolution on graph, i.e. solution to the equation tu(t,α)=iβAL(α,β)u(t,β)\partial_tu(t,\alpha)=i\sum_{\beta\in\mathcal{A}}L(\alpha,\beta)u(t,\beta), here A\mathcal{A} is the set of vertices of the graph and the matrix (L(α,β))α,βA(L(\alpha,\beta))_{\alpha,\beta\in\mathcal{A}} describes interaction between the vertices, in particular two vertices α\alpha and β\beta are connected if L(α,β)0L(\alpha,\beta)\neq0. We assume that the graph has a "web-like" structure, i.e, it consists of an inner part, formed by a finite number of vertices, and some threads attach to it. We prove that such solution u(t,α)u(t,\alpha) cannot decay too fast along one thread at two different times, unless it vanishes at this thread. We also give a characterization of the dimension of the vector space formed by all the solutions of tu(t,α)=iβAL(α,β)u(t,β)\partial_tu(t,\alpha)=i\sum_{\beta\in\mathcal{A}}L(\alpha,\beta)u(t,\beta) when A\mathcal{A} is a finite set, in terms of the number of the different eigenvalues of the matrix L(,)L(\cdot,\cdot)

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@article{arxiv.1611.05381,
  title  = {Uncertainty principle for discrete Schr\"odinger evolution on graphs},
  author = {Isaac Alvarez-Romero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.05381},
  year   = {2016}
}

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17 pages, minor changes

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