Three circles theorems for Schrödinger operators on cylindrical ends and geometric applications

DOI10.1002/CPA.20232zbMATH Open1170.35035arXivmath/0701302OpenAlexW2148586446MaRDI QIDQ3532829FDOQ3532829

Camillo De Lellis, William P. II Minicozzi, Tobias Holck Colding

Publication date: 28 October 2008

Published in: Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that for a Schr"odinger operator with bounded potential on a manifold with cylindrical ends the space of solutions which grows at most exponentially at infinity is finite dimensional and, for a dense set of potentials (or, equivalently for a surface, for a fixed potential and a dense set of metrics), the constant function zero is the only solution that vanishes at infinity. Clearly, for general potentials there can be many solutions that vanish at infinity. These results follow from a three circles inequality (or log convexity inequality) for the Sobolev norm of a solution $u$ to a Schr"odinger equation on a product $Nimes[0,T]$, where $N$ is a closed manifold with a certain spectral gap. Examples of such $N$'s are all (round) spheres $S{S}^n$ for $ngeq1$ and all Zoll surfaces. Finally, we discuss some examples arising in geometry of such manifolds and Schr"odinger operators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701302

zbMATH Keywords

cylindrical endsSchrödinger operatorssingular laminationsthree circles theorems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05)

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