Modified Jost solutions of Schr\"odinger operators with locally $H^{-1}$ potentials

Abstract

We study Jost solutions of Schr\"odinger operators with potentials which decay with respect to a local $H^{-1}$ Sobolev norm; in particular, we generalize to this setting the results of Christ--Kiselev for potentials between the integrable and square-integrable rates of decay, proving existence of solutions with WKB asymptotic behavior on a large set of positive energies. This applies to new classes of potentials which are not locally integrable, or have better decay properties with respect to the $H^{-1}$ norm due to rapid oscillations.