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Propagation of growth and singularities for Schrödinger operators

J. Wunsch

We study the time-dependent Schrödinger equation

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on tex2html_wrap_inline17 with an asymptotically Euclidean metric, or, more generally, on a manifold with boundary M, equipped with a ``scattering metric.'' Microlocal smoothness of tex2html_wrap_inline21 turns out to be determined by growth properties of tex2html_wrap_inline23 at tex2html_wrap_inline25 . A sensible measure of both singularities and growth is the ``quadratic-scattering'' wavefront set, a generalization of Hörmander's wavefront set. We prove a propagation theorem for the quadratic-scattering wavefront set that describes singularities and growth of tex2html_wrap_inline21 in terms of singularities and growth of tex2html_wrap_inline23 . This theorem generalizes a similar result of Craig, Kappeler and Strauss.





Richard B. Melrose
Tue Mar 11 20:25:21 EST 1997