Some quantitative unique continuation results for eigenfunctions of the magnetic Schrödinger operator

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Abstract

We prove quantitative unique continuation results for solutions of −Δu+W⋅∇u+Vu=λu-Δu + W\cdot \nabla u + Vu = λu, where λ∈Cλ\in \mathbb{C} and VV and WW are complex-valued decaying potentials that satisfy ∣V(x)∣≲⟨x⟩−N|V(x)| \lesssim \langle x\rangle^{-N} and ∣W(x)∣≲⟨x⟩−P|W(x)| \lesssim \langle x\rangle^{-P}. For M(R)=inf⁡∣x0∣=R∣∣u∣∣L2(B1(x0))M(R) = \inf_{|x_0| = R}||u||_{L^2(B_1(x_0))}, we show that if the solution uu is non-zero, bounded, and u(0)=1u(0) = 1, then M(R)≳exp⁡(−CRβ0(log⁡R)A(R))M(R) \gtrsim \exp(-C R^{β_0}(\log R)^{A( R)}), where β0=max⁡{2−2P,4−2N3,1}β_0 = \max\{2 - 2P, \frac{4-2N}{3}, 1\}. Under certain conditions on NN, PP and λλ, we construct examples (some of which are in the style of Meshkov) to prove that this estimate for M(R)M(R) is sharp. That is, we construct functions u,Vu, V and WW such that −Δu+W⋅∇u+Vu=λu-Δu + W\cdot \nabla u + Vu = λu, ∣V(x)∣≲⟨x⟩−N|V(x)| \lesssim \langle x\rangle^{-N}, ∣W(x)∣≲⟨x⟩−P|W(x)| \lesssim \langle x\rangle^{-P} and ∣u(x)∣≲exp⁡(−c∣x∣β0(log⁡∣x∣)C)|u(x)| \lesssim \exp(-c|x|^{β_0}(\log |x|)^C).

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