Decay estimates for fourth-order Schrödinger operators in dimension two

Ping Li, Avy Soffer, Xiaohua Yao

Published 2021-10-14, updated 2023-07-31Version 3

In this paper we study the decay estimates of the fourth order Schr\"{o}dinger operator $H=\Delta^{2}+V(x)$ on $\mathbb{R}^2$ with a bounded decaying potential $V(x)$. We first deduce the asymptotic expansions of resolvent of $H$ near the zero threshold in the presence of resonances or eigenvalue, and then use them to establish the $L^1-L^\infty$ decay estimates of $e^{-itH}$generated by the fourth order Schr\"{o}dinger operator $H$. Our methods used in the decay estimates depend on Littlewood-Paley decomposition and oscillatory integral theory. Moreover, we classify these zero resonances as the distributional solutions of $H\phi=0$ in suitable weighted spaces. Due to the degeneracy of $\Delta^{2}$ at zero threshold and the lower even dimension (i.e. $n=2$), we remark that the asymptotic expansions of resolvent $R_V(\lambda^4)$ and the classifications of resonances are more involved than Schr\"odinger operator $-\Delta+V$ in dimension two.