The one-third time-decay conjecture for the periodically forced Dirac propagator

Consider the periodically forced Dirac equation with mass m=1m=1, and let MnM^n denote its nn-period propagator. For β>0\beta>0, write ⟨∂x⟩β=(1−∂x2)β/2\langle\partial_x\rangle^\beta=(1-\partial_x^2)^{\beta/2}. One-third time-decay conjecture. For every ε>0\varepsilon>0 there exists Cε>0C_{\varepsilon}>0 such that

∥Mn⟨∂x⟩−(2/3+ε)∥L1→L∞≤Cεn−1/3.\left\|M^n\langle\partial_x\rangle^{-(2/3+\varepsilon)}\right\|_{L^1\to L^{\infty}}\leq C_{\varepsilon}n^{-1/3}.

The conjecture is motivated by numerically observed inflection points of the dispersion relation at arbitrarily large Fourier momenta, where the third derivative becomes small. Van der Corput estimates suggest the n−1/3n^{-1/3} decay, while the additional ε\varepsilon of smoothing is attributed to the dyadic partition argument; the supplied source does not state whether this conjecture has been resolved.

References

Primary source

Joseph Kraisler, Amir Sagiv and Michael I. Weinstein, “On the Time-decay of solutions arising from periodically forced Dirac Hamiltonians”, arXiv:2501.07466 (2025).

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