Localization and semibounded energy -- a weak unique continuation theorem

DOI10.1016/S0393-0440(99)00060-1MaRDI QIDQ1576291zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Bär

Publication date 27 September 2001

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9910023

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac type operatorsspectral subspaceweak unique continuation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05)

Abstract: Let D be a self-adjoint differential operator of Dirac type acting on sections in a vector bundle over a closed Riemannian manifold M. Let H be a closed D-invariant subspace of the Hilbert space of square integrable sections. Suppose D restricted to H is semibounded. We show that every element u in H has the weak unique continuation property, i.e. if u vanishes on a nonempty open subset of M, then it vanishes on all of M.

Review text

Let \(M\) be a closed Riemannian manifold, and let \(E\to M\) be a Hermitian vector bundle over \(M\). Let \(D\) be an operator of Dirac type on sections of \(E\). Suppose that \(\mathcal{H}\) is a closed subspace of \(L^{2}(M,E)\) that is invariant under \(D\), and suppose that the restriction of \(D\) to \(\mathcal{H}\) is semibounded. A typical example of this situation occurs when \(\mathcal{H}\) is a direct sum of eigenspaces of \(D\) whose corresponding eigenvalues are bounded from below. The main theorem of this paper states that every element \(\psi\in \mathcal{H}\) satisfies the weak unique continuation property. That is, if \(\psi\) vanishes on an open subset of \(M\), then \(\psi\) vanishes on all of \(M\). Other theorems concerning this property generally require that elements of the subspace satisfy a type of local condition such as a differential inequality. In contrast, the hypothesis of the theorem in this paper is a nonlocal condition that applies in many useful situations that arise in global analysis and mathematical physics.

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