Local Smoothing for the Schrödinger Equation on a Multi-Warped Product Manifold with Inflection-Transmission Trapping (2005.13591v2)

Abstract: Geodesic trapping is an obstruction to dispersive estimates for solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation. Surprisingly little is known about solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation on manifolds with degenerate trapping, since the conditions for degenerate trapping are not stable under perturbations. In this paper we extend some of the results of [CM14] on inflection-transmission type trapping on warped product manifolds to the case of multi-warped products. The main result is that the trapping on one cross section does not interact with the trapping on other cross sections provided the manifold has only one infinite end and only inflection-transmission type trapping.