Time decay of scaling critical electromagnetic Schrödinger flows (Q387637)

A representation formula is found for the solutions of the critical scaling Schrödinger equation \[ iu_t=(-i\nabla+A(\theta)/r)^2u+a(\theta)/r^2 u, \quad x=r\theta,\quad \theta\in\mathbb{S}^{n-1}, \] where \(A\) is such that \(A(\theta)\cdot\theta=0\). The formula is based on the spectral decomposition of an associated operator defined on \(\mathbb{S}^{n-1}\). The representation formula requires that the smallest eigenvalue of this modified Laplace-Beltrami operator is bigger than \(-(n/2-1)^2\). This well-known assumption guarantees the existence of a positive energy for the original equation. The representation formula has an integral form and involves a kernel. The authors study its boundedness for two particular potentials in order to get dispersive estimates. The first one is the Aharonov-Bohm potential which is a magnetic potential. The authors prove the validity of the assumptions for using the representation formula and prove the boundedness of the kernel. The second one is the well-known inverse-square potential model for which time decay estimates have already been found by \textit{N. Burq} et al. [J. Funct. Anal. 203, No. 2, 519--549 (2003; Zbl 1030.35024)]. For \(n=3\), the authors prove again the validity of the assumptions and the boundedness of the kernel under the more restrictive assumption that \(a\geq 0\). For \(0>4a>-1\) they give instead a weaker, weighted \(L^p-L^{p'}\) estimate.