Well-posedness and local smoothing of solutions of Schrödinger equations (Q2388308)

It is well known that for potentials \(V\in L^{n/2}_x L^\infty_t+ L^r_t L^\infty_x\), \(r> 1\), \(n\geq 3\), with small \(L^{n/2}_x L^\infty_t\) part, the initial value problem for the Schrödinger equation in \(\mathbb{R}^n\times \mathbb{R}\): \((i\partial_t+ \Delta_x)u= Vu\), \(u(.,0)= u_0\) is well-posed. The solution gains \(1/2\) derivative (locally) over the initial data at almost every time (local smoothing). In this note the authors prove well-posedness and local smoothing for potentials \(V\) in the larger space \(L^{n/2}_x L^\infty_t+ L^1_t L^\infty_x\), \(n\geq 3\), with an additional smallness assumption on the \(L^{n/2}_x L^\infty_t\) part. They also show that their space of potentials is optimal for well-posedness, in the scale of Strichartz spaces \(L^p_t L^q_x\), and that the smallness assumption on the \(L^{n/2}_n L^\infty_t\) part is necessary.