A commuting-vector-field approach to some dispersive estimates

DOI10.1007/S00013-017-1114-4zbMATH Open1384.35108arXiv1701.01460OpenAlexW2578360533MaRDI QIDQ1702167FDOQ1702167

Authors: Willie Wong 

Publication date: 28 February 2018

Published in: Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove the pointwise decay of solutions to three linear equations: (i) the transport equation in phase space generalizing the classical Vlasov equation, (ii) the linear Schrodinger equation, (iii) the Airy (linear KdV) equation. The usual proofs use explicit representation formulae, and either obtain $L^1$---$L^{i}nfty$ decay through directly estimating the fundamental solution in physical space, or by studying oscillatory integrals coming from the representation in Fourier space. Our proof instead combines "vector field" commutators that capture the inherent symmetries of the relevant equations with conservation laws for mass and energy to get space-time weighted energy estimates. Combined with a simple version of Sobolev's inequality this gives pointwise decay as desired. In the case of the Vlasov and Schrodinger equations we can recover sharp pointwise decay; in the Schrodinger case we also show how to obtain local energy decay as well as Strichartz-type estimates. For the Airy equation we obtain a local energy decay that is almost sharp from the scaling point of view, but nonetheless misses the classical estimates by a gap. This work is inspired by the work of Klainerman on $L^2$---$L^{i}nfty$ decay of wave equations, as well as the recent work of Fajman, Joudioux, and Smulevici on decay of mass distributions for the relativistic Vlasov equation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01460

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zbMATH Keywords

Strichartz estimatesVlasov equationAiry equationvector field methoddispersive equations[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=linear+Schr%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDdinger+equation&go=Go linear Schr��dinger equation]

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) KdV equations (Korteweg-de Vries equations) (35Q53) Vlasov equations (35Q83)

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