Decay estimates of discretized Green's functions for Schrödinger type operators

Abstract

For a sparse non-singular matrix $A$, generally $A^{-1}$ is a dense matrix. However, for a class of matrices, $A^{-1}$ can be a matrix with off-diagonal decay properties, i.e. $|A_{ij}^{-1}|$ decays fast to $0$ with respect to the increase of a properly defined distance between $i$ and $j$. Here we consider the off-diagonal decay properties of discretized Green's functions for Schrödinger type operators. We provide decay estimates for discretized Green's functions obtained from the finite difference discretization, and from a variant of the pseudo-spectral discretization. The asymptotic decay rate in our estimate is independent of the domain size and of the discretization parameter. We verify the decay estimate with numerical results for one-dimensional Schrödinger type operators.