Fractional Fourier transforms, harmonic oscillator propagators and Strichartz estimates on Pilipović and modulation spaces (Q6051164)

The authors investigate mapping properties for powers of harmonic oscillators, their propagators and fractional Fourier transforms on Pilipović spaces (which include any non-trivial Gelfand-Shilov space), and modulation spaces. To be more precise, for any \(c\in {\mathbb C}\) and \(\rho = (\rho_1, \ldots, \rho_d)\in {\mathbb C}^d,\) we let \[ H_{x,\rho,c}:= \left(\sum_{j=1}^d \rho_j (x_j^2 - \partial^2_{x_j})\right) + c \] and we simply write \(H_{x,c}\) when \(\rho_j = 1\) for all \(j = 1,\ldots, d.\) It is proved in Section~2 that powers of \(H_{x,c}\) or \(H_{x,\rho,c}\) are continuous on Pilipović spaces. Also homeomorphism properties of harmonic oscillator propagators are considered, as well as continuity of powers of harmonic oscillators on certain weighted modulation spaces of Hilbert type. Based on the Bargmann transform, it is proved in Section~3 that harmonic oscillator propagators of the form \(e^{irH_{x,\rho,c}}\) are essentially fractional Fourier transforms, which allows transferring some mapping properties of the fractional Fourier transform to the harmonic oscillator propagators. The obtained continuity results are applied in Section~4 to extend certain Strichartz estimates for harmonic oscillator propagators when acting on modulation spaces. Finally, some time-dependent equations related to Schrödinger and heat equations are studied. In particular it is proved that some of these equations are ill-posed in the framework of Schwartz functions or Gelfand-Shilov spaces but well-posed for suitable Pilipović spaces.