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

DOI10.1002/CPA.20232MaRDI QIDQ3532829zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

Publication date 28 October 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701302, https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/6667/5/0701302v1.pdf

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)

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.

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