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 xβ=(1x2)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

Mnx(2/3+ε)L1LCεn1/3.\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 n1/3n^{-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.

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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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