Recent progress on the Landis conjecture

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Jeen-Nan Wang , National Taiwan University

In the late 60's, E.M. Landis conjectured that if Δu+Vu=0 in Rn with VL(Rn)1 and uL(Rn)C0 satisfying |u(x)|Cexp(C|x|1+), then u0. Landis' conjecture was disproved by Meshkov who constructed such V and nontrivial u satisfying |u(x)|Cexp(C|x|43). He also showed that if |u(x)|Cexp(C|x|43+), then u0. A quantitative form of Meshkov's result was derived by Bourgain and Kenig in their resolution of Anderson localization for the Bernoulli model in higher dimensions. It should be noted that both V and u constructed by Meshkov are \emph{complex-valued} functions. It remains an open question whether Landis' conjecture is true for real-valued V and u. In this talk I would like to discuss a recent joint work with Kenig and Silvestre on Landis' conjecture in two dimensions. Precisely, let W(z) be a measurable real vector-valued function and V(z)0 be a real measurable scalar function, satisfying WL(mathbbR2)1 and VL(R2)1. Let u be a real solution of Δu(Wu)Vu=0 in R2. Assume that u(0)=1 and uL(R2)exp(C0|z|). Then u satisfies $\underset{{|z_0|=R}}{\inf}\,\underset{|z-z_0|