Uniform Strichartz estimates on the lattice

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate Strichartz estimates for discrete linear Schrödinger and discrete linear Klein-Gordon equations on a lattice $h{\mathbb{Z}}^d$ with $h>0$, where $h$ is the distance between two adjacent lattice points. As for fixed $h>0$, Strichartz estimates for discrete Schrödinger and one-dimensional discrete Klein-Gordon equations are established by Stefanov-Kevrekidis \cite{SK2005}. Our main result shows that such inequalities hold uniformly in $h\in (0,1]$ with additional fractional derivatives on the right hand side. As an application, we obtain local well-posedness of a discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a priori bounds independent of $h$. The theorems and the harmonic analysis tools developed in this paper would be useful in the study of the continuum limit $h\to 0$ for discrete models, including our forthcoming work \cite{HY} where strong convergence for a discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation is addressed.

25 pages, 3 figures