Local smoothing for the quantum Liouville equation

Abstract

We analyze in this work the regularity properties of the density operator solu- tion to the quantum Liouville equation. As was recently done for the Strichartz inequalities, we extend to systems of orthonormal functions the local smoothing estimates satisfied by the solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation. We show in par- ticular that the local density associated to the solution to the free, linear, quantum Liouville equation admits locally fractional derivatives of given order provided the data belong to some Schatten spaces.