Dispersive estimate for the 1D Schrödinger equation with a steplike potential

DOI10.1016/J.JDE.2011.03.016MaRDI QIDQ652495zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 14 December 2011

Published in Journal of Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3433

dispersive estimate Schrödinger equation steplike potentials

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41)

Abstract: We prove a sharp dispersive estimate

|P_{ac}u(t,x)|le C|t|^{-1/2}|u(0)|_{L^1(R)}

for the one dimensional Schr"odinger equation

iu_{t}-u_{xx}+V(x)u+V_0 u=0,

where

(1 + x^{2}) V i n L^{1} (R)

and

V_{0}

is a step function, real valued and consant on the positive and negative real axes.

Review text

Let \(f\in L^1({\mathbb R})\) and assume that the potential \(V:{\mathbb R}\rightarrow {\mathbb R}\) satisfies \((1+x^2)V(x)\in L^1({\mathbb R})\). Let \(V_0\) be a piecewise constant function equal to \(V_+\) on \((0,\infty)\) and to \(V_-\) on \((-\infty ,0)\). Let \(u(t,x)\) be the solution of the Schrödinger equation \[ iu_t-u_{xx}+V_0u+V(x)u=0,\qquad u(0,x)=f(x). \] The main result of the present paper establishes that \(u(t,x)\) satisfies the dispersive estimate \[ |P_{ac}u(t,x)|\leq C\, \| f\|_{L^1}\cdot |t|^{-1/2}. \] The proof combines a careful analysis of both high frequencies and low frequencies. The low frequency part is more difficult to estimate, and requires some rather precise information on the asymptotic behaviour of the Jost solutions for the corresponding Helmholtz equation.

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