Friends in Partial Differential Equations 25 мая 2024 г. 10:00–10:40, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, online
On the rate of decay at infinity of solutions to the Schrödinger equation in a cylinder domains
Аннотация:
We consider the equation
$$
-\Delta u + V u = 0
$$
in the cylinder
${\mathbb R} \times (0,2\pi)^d$
with periodic boundary conditions on the side surface.
A potential $V$ is assumed to be real-valued and bounded.
We are interested in the possible rate of decay of a non-trivial solution $u$ at infinity.
Clearly, a solution can decrease exponentially.
For $d=1$ or $d=2$, a solution can not decrease faster: if
$$
u (x,y) = O \left(e^{-N|x|}\right) \quad \forall \ N,
$$
then $u \equiv 0$.
Here $x$ is the axial variable.
For $d \ge 3$, we construct an example of a non-trivial solution decreasing as $e^{-c |x|^{4/3}}$,
and it is known that it is optimal,
$$
u (x,y) = O \left(e^{-N|x|^{4/3}}\right) \quad \forall \ N \qquad \Longrightarrow \qquad u \equiv 0.
$$