Landis's conjecture for exponentially decaying Schrödinger solutions

Let Ω\Omega be either RN\mathbb{R}^N or an exterior domain in RN\mathbb{R}^N, and let VL(RN)V\in L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^N) satisfy V1\|V\|_{\infty}\leq 1. Suppose that uu solves

Δu+Vu=0in Ω\Delta u+Vu=0\quad\text{in }\Omega

and that u(x)=O(eκx)u(x)=O(e^{-\kappa|x|}) as x|x|\to\infty for some κ>1\kappa>1. Landis's conjecture. Then u0u\equiv 0 in Ω\Omega. The conjecture asks whether sufficiently rapid exponential decay forces unique continuation at infinity for solutions of a linear Schrödinger equation. It was negatively answered by Meshkov, who constructed a complex-valued potential and a nontrivial solution with decay O(eκx4/3)O(e^{-\kappa|x|^{4/3}}) at infinity for some κ>0\kappa>0.

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Sebastián Flores Sepúlveda and Gabrielle Nornberg, “The Landis Conjecture For Nonlocal Elliptic Operators: Polynomial Decay”, arXiv:2501.00969 (2025).

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