Dispersive effects for the Schrödinger equation on a tadpole graph

Abstract

We consider the free Schrödinger group $e^{-it\frac{d^2}{d{x}^2}}$ on a tadpole graph $\mathcal{R}$. We first show that the time decay estimates $L^1(\mathcal{R})\to L^{\infty }(\mathcal{R})$ is in $|t{|}^{-\frac{1}{2}}$ with a constant independent of the length of the circle. Our proof is based on an appropriate decomposition of the kernel of the resolvent. Further we derive a dispersive perturbation estimate, which proves that the solution on the queue of the tadpole converges uniformly, after compensation of the underlying time decay, to the solution of the Neumann half-line problem, as the circle shrinks to a point. To obtain this result, we suppose that the initial condition fulfills a high frequency cutoff.