Local time decay of high energy scattering states for the Schrödinger equation (Q793213): Difference between revisions

The main result of this paper is an estimate for the time decay of the time evolution of certain scattering solutions for the Schrödinger equation. \(-id\phi(t)/dt=H\phi(t),\) \(t\in {\mathbb{R}}\) where H is the self- adjoint closure of \(-\Delta +V\) on \(C_ 0^{\infty}({\mathbb{R}}^ n)\), \(V=V_ s+V_ 1\) being the sum of a short range part and a long range part of the potential, i.e. real-valued functions satisfying the conditions \(<x>^ NV_ s(-\Delta +1)^{-\delta}\) is bounded for \(N\in {\mathbb{N}}\) and suitable \(\delta\in [0,frac{1}{2})\) with \(\quad<x>^{2N}V_ s(x)\to 0,\quad | x| \to \infty;\) and \(V_ 1\in C^{(N+2+[n/2])}({\mathbb{R}}^ n)\) such that \(| D^{\alpha}V(x)| \leq C_{\alpha}<x>^{-| \alpha | - \epsilon}\) for \(\epsilon>0\) and any multi-index \(\alpha\) with \(| \alpha | \leq N+1.\) More precisely it is shown that the time evolution operator \(e^{-itH}\) considered as a mapping between the weighted spaces \(L^ 2_ s\to L^ 2_{-s}\quad(L^ 2:=L^ 2({\mathbb{R}}^ n,<x>^{2s}dx)\) decays like \(t^{-s+\eta}\), where \(\eta\) depends on the ''smoothness'' of the long- range part of the potential \(V_{\ell}\) and the ''localization'' weight (i.e. \(\eta =S/N)\), provided one cuts off energies below a suitable high level. Note that this estimate depends not on the dimension n of the configuration space, in contrast to low-energy estimates. The result is obtained by a suitable transformation of some estimates of the power of the resolvent of H near the real axis. These estimates are obtained by using two new techniques. One is the use of a modified complex scaling (i.e. the use of the modified generator \(A=frac{1}{2}(x- {\tilde \sigma}(p)+{\tilde \sigma}(p)\cdot x)\) (instead of the usual dilation generator \(frac{1}{2}(x\cdot p+p\cdot x)\) for defining the dilation family \(\theta \to e^{-\theta A}He^{\theta A}\) which turns the essential spectrum of H into a parabola shaped line if \(\theta\) runs from 0 to a suitable \(\theta_ 0>0\). (\({\tilde \sigma}\) being a suitable bounded function.) The other technique is the use of a finite Taylor approximation of the dilation family for solving certain differential inequalities, an idea which goes back to E. Mourre.