Sobolev and max norm error estimates for Gaussian beam superpositions

DOI10.4310/CMS.2016.V14.N7.A12zbMATH Open1372.35263arXiv1510.09120OpenAlexW2963869816MaRDI QIDQ345992FDOQ345992

Olof Runborg, Nicolay M. Tanushev, Hailiang Liu

Publication date: 5 December 2016

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This work is concerned with the accuracy of Gaussian beam superpositions, which are asymptotically valid high frequency solutions to linear hyperbolic partial differential equations and the Schr"odinger equation. We derive Sobolev and max norms estimates for the difference between an exact solution and the corresponding Gaussian beam approximation, in terms of the short wavelength $varepsilon$. The estimates are performed for the scalar wave equation and the Schr"odinger equation. Our result demonstrates that a Gaussian beam superposition with $k$-th order beams converges to the exact solution as $O(varepsilo{n}^{k/2-s})$ in order $s$ Sobolev norms. This result is valid in any number of spatial dimensions and it is unaffected by the presence of caustics in the solution. In max norm, we show that away from caustics the convergence rate is $O(varepsilo{n}^{lceilk/2ceil})$ and away from the essential support of the solution, the convergence is spectral in $varepsilon$. However, in the neighborhood of a caustic point we are only able to show the slower, and dimensional dependent, rate $O(varepsilo{n}^{(k-n)/2})$ in $n$ spatial dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.09120

zbMATH Keywords

error estimatesSobolev normGaussian beamshigh-frequency wave propagationmax norm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) A priori estimates in context of PDEs (35B45) Wave equation (35L05) Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Hyperbolic equations on manifolds (58J45) Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs (35A35) Initial value problems for higher-order hyperbolic equations (35L30)

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