Dispersive Estimates for Dirac Operators with General Domain Walls: One and Two Dimensions

Abstract

We establish dispersive decay estimates for two-dimensional Dirac equations with bounded and unbounded domain walls, together with estimates for the analogous one-dimensional problem. These are paradigmatic models of bulk-edge correspondence in topological insulators, yet their dispersive dynamics have not been previously studied. We show that topologically equivalent models may exhibit qualitatively different dynamics. Our new approach allows us to analyze models which are beyond the usual framework of localized perturbations of constant-coefficient Dirac operators.