Decay estimates of discretized Green's functions for Schrödinger type operators (Q341320)

The authors demonstrate that properly discretized Green's functions, using finite differences and pseudo-spectral discretizations, for Schrödinger-type operators satisfy off-diagonal decay properties. More precise, for the finite differences method, the off-diagonal elements of the discretized Green's function decay exponentially whereas the off-diagonal elements of the discretized Green's function decay super-algebraically for the mollified pseudo-spectral discretization. In particular, decay estimates of which the asymptotic decay rate is independent of the domain size \(L\) and of the discretization parameter such as the grid spacing are obtained. The analysis provided is supported by numerical experiments for one-dimensional Schrödinger-type operators. The results obtained can be extended to higher dimensions.