Unique continuation for Schr{\"o}dinger operators with partially Gevrey coefficients

Abstract

We prove a local unique continuation result for Schr\''odinger operators with time independent Lipschitz metrics and lower order terms which are Gevrey 2 in time and bounded in space. This implies global unique continuation from any open set in a connected Riemannian manifold. These results relax in the same geometric setting the analyticity assumption in time of the Tataru-Robbiano-Zuily-H\''ormander theorem for these operators. The proof is based on (i) a Tataru-Robbiano-Zuily-H\''ormander type Carleman estimate with a nonlocal weight adapted to the anisotropy of the Schr\''odinger operator and (ii) the description of the conjugation of the Schr\''odinger operator with Gevrey coefficients by this nonlocal weight.