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We consider a version of the stationary phase method in one dimension of A. Erd\'elyi, allowing the phase to have stationary points of non-integer order and the amplitude to have integrable singularities. After having completed the original proof and improved the error estimate in the case of regular amplitude, we consider a modification of the method by replacing the smooth cut-off function employed in the source by a characteristic function, leading to more precise remainder estimates. We exploit this refinement to study the time-asymptotic behaviour of the solution of the free Schr\"odinger equation on the line, where the Fourier transform of the initial data is compactly supported and has a singularity. We obtain asymptotic expansions with respect to time in certain space-time cones as well as uniform and optimal estimates in curved regions which are asymptotically larger than any space-time cone. These results show the influence of the frequency band and of the singularity on the propagation and on the decay of the wave packets., Comment: This paper is a unified version of the two articles "Explicit error estimates for the stationary phase method I: The influence of amplitude singularities" (arXiv:1412.5789) and "Explicit error estimates for the stationary phase method II: Interaction of amplitude singularities with stationary points" (arXiv:1412.5792). Results and presentation have been slightly improved

In this paper, we improve slightly Erd\'elyi's version of the stationary phase method by replacing the employed smooth cut-off function by a characteristic function, leading to more precise remainder estimates. We exploit this refinement to study the time-asymptotic behaviour of the solution of the free Schr\"odinger equation on the line, where the Fourier transform of the initial data is compactly supported and has a singularity. We obtain uniform estimates of the solution in space-time regions which are asymptotically larger than any space-time cones. Moreover we expand the solution with respect to time on the boundaries of the above regions, showing the optimality of the decay rates of the estimates., Comment: This paper is part II of a series of two articles. The title of the first part is: "Explicit error estimates for the stationary phase method I: The influence of amplitude singularities"

We consider a version of the stationary phase method in one dimension of A. Erd\'elyi, allowing the phase to have stationary points of non-integer order and the amplitude to have integrable singularities. We provide a complete proof and we improve the remainder estimates in the case of regular amplitude. Then we are interested in the time-asymptotic behaviour of the solution of the free Schr\"odinger equation on the line, where the Fourier transform of the initial data is compactly supported and has a singularity. Applying the above mentioned method, we obtain asymptotic expansions with respect to time in certain space-time cones, where the coefficients of the remainders are uniformly bounded. These results show the influence of the singularity on the decay., Comment: This paper is part I of a series of two articles. The title of the second part is: "Explicit error estimates for the stationary phase method II: Interaction of amplitude singularities with stationary points"

It is well-known that the solution of the classical linear wave equation with compactly supported initial condition and vanishing initial velocity is also compactly supported in a set depending on time : the support of the solution at time t is causally related to that of the initially given condition. Reed and Simon have shown that for a real-valued Klein-Gordon equation with (nonlinear) right-hand side $- \lambda u^3$, causality still holds. We show the same property for a one-dimensional Klein-Gordon problem but with transmission and with a more general repulsive nonlinear right-hand side $F$. We also prove the global existence of a solution using the repulsiveness of $F$. In the particular case $F(u) = - \lambda u^3$, the problem is a physical model for a quantum particle submitted to self-interaction and to a potential step., Comment: 23 pages, no figures