On the Cauchy problem for the Schrödinger equation with generator of variable type (Q1778292)

The author studies the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the Schrödinger equation \[ i\frac{\partial u(t,x,y)}{\partial t}=\mathbf{L}(t,x,y), \quad t>0, \quad (x,y)\in \mathbb R^2, \] \[ u(0,x,y)=u_0(x,y). \] Two types of this problem are considered. If the operator \textbf{L} degenerates in the halfplane \(x>0\) in the direction normal to \(\gamma\): \(x=0\), then it is given by the formula \[ \mathbf{L}v=\frac{\partial^2v}{\partial y^2}+\frac{\partial}{\partial x}\left[\varepsilon(x)\frac{\partial v }{\partial x}\right]+\frac{i}{2}\left(a(x)\frac{\partial v }{\partial x}+\frac{\partial a(x)_v }{\partial x}\right),\quad a\in \mathbb R, \] where \(\varepsilon(x)=1-(1-\varepsilon)\theta(x)\), \(a(x)=a\theta(x)\), \(\varepsilon\in [0,1)\), \(\theta(x)\) the Heaviside function. If the operator \textbf{L} degenerates in the halfplane \(x>0\) in the direction tangent to \(\gamma\), then it is given by the formula \[ \mathbf{L}v=\frac{\partial^2v}{\partial x^2}+\frac{\partial}{\partial y}\left((1-\theta(x))\frac{\partial v }{\partial y}\right)+\frac{i}{2}a\left(\theta(x)\frac{\partial v }{\partial y}+\frac{\partial \theta(x)_v }{\partial y}\right),\quad a\in \mathbb R. \] The well-posedness of degenerate Cauchy problems is investigated for both types. Convergence of the sequence of solutions of the regularized Cauchy problem to the solution of the degenerated Cauchy problem is studied.