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Semiclassical diffraction by conormal potential singularities

Authors :
Gannot, Oran
Wunsch, Jared
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

We establish propagation of singularities for the semiclassical Schr\"odinger equation, where the potential is conormal to a hypersurface. We show that semiclassical wavefront set propagates along generalized broken bicharacteristics, hence reflection of singularities may occur along trajectories reaching the hypersurface transversely. The reflected wavefront set is weaker, however, by a power of $h$ that depends on the regularity of the potential. We also show that for sufficiently regular potentials, wavefront set may not stick to the hypersurface, but rather detaches from it at points of tangency to travel along ordinary bicharacteristics.<br />Comment: 99 pages; exposition revised in response to referee comments

Subjects

Subjects :
Mathematics - Analysis of PDEs

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1806.01813
Document Type :
Working Paper