Dispersion estimates for the discrete Hermite operator

DOI10.1007/S13226-021-00137-1MaRDI QIDQ2065341zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Vijay Kumar Sohani, Devendra Tiwari

Publication date 7 January 2022

Published in Indian Journal of Pure \& Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s13226-021-00137-1

difference operator dispersion estimates Hermite functions Hermite polynomials

Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Difference operators (39A70) Jacobi (tridiagonal) operators (matrices) and generalizations (47B36) Linear operators on special spaces (weighted shifts, operators on sequence spaces, etc.) (47B37) Dispersion theory, dispersion relations arising in quantum theory (81U30)

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It is well known that the classical Hermite orthogonal polynomials in one variable, \(H_{n}\left(x\right) \), play a crucial role in the exact solutions of the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation modeling the {quantum harmonic oscillator}: \[ -\frac{\hbar ^{2}}{2m}\frac{d^{2}\psi (x)}{dx^{2}}+\frac{1}{2}m\omega^{2}x^{2}\psi (x)=E\psi (x). \] In this framework, ``exact solutions means that the whole energy spectrum is analytically computed: \[ E_{n}=\hbar \omega \left( n+\frac{1}{2}\right) ,\quad n=0,1,2,\ldots , \] as well as the corresponding set of wave functions (also known as \textit{Hermite functions}) \[ \psi _{n}(x)=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2^{n}n!}}\left( \frac{m\omega }{\pi \hbar }\right) ^{1/4}e^{-\frac{m\omega x^{2}}{2\hbar }}H_{n}\left( \sqrt{\frac{m\omega }{\hbar }}x\right) ,\quad n=0,1,2,\ldots . \] In this nice and very technical paper, the authors study the one-dimensional discrete Schrödinger equation associated with the self-adjoint Jacobi operator \[ H_{d}=\left( \begin{array}{cccccc} 0 & \sqrt{2} & 0 & 0 & 0 & \cdots \\ \sqrt{2} & 0 & \sqrt{4} & 0 & 0 & \cdots \\ 0 & \sqrt{4} & 0 & \sqrt{6} & 0 & \cdots \\ 0 & 0 & \sqrt{6} & 0 & \sqrt{8} & \cdots \\ 0 & 0 & 0 & \sqrt{8} & 0 & \cdots \\ \vdots & \vdots & \vdots & \vdots & \vdots & \ddots \end{array} \right), \] whose generalize eigenfunctions are precisely the Hermite functions. They obtain a sharp \(l^{\infty }\)\ estimate of the kernel \(a_{n,m}(t)\), for \(m=0,1\), \(m=n\), and \(t\in \lbrack 1,\infty ]\) for the \textit{propagator} \(e^{itH_{d}}\), associated with the Hermite functions. They also obtain an interesting recurrence relation for \(a_{n,m}(t)\), and they conjecture that the aforesaid \(l^{\infty }\) estimate holds true for general values of the parameter \(m\).

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