Propagation of space-time singularities for perturbed harmonic oscillators

Abstract

We discuss propagation of space-time singularities for the quantum harmonic oscillator with time-dependent metric and potential perturbations. Reformulating the quasi-homogeneous wave front set according to Lascar (1977) in a semiclassical manner, we obtain a characterization of its appearance in comparison with the unperturbed system. The idea of our proof is based on the argument of Nakamura (2009), which was originally devised for the analysis of spatial singularities of the Schrödinger equation, however, the application is non-trivial since the time is no more a parameter, but takes a part in the base variables.