Spectral Cut-off Oscillatory Integrals for Non-Autonomous Hamiltonian Evolution Equations

Abstract

We develop a spectral cut-off construction of real-time oscillatory integrals associated with non-autonomous Hamiltonian evolution equations. Let \(H_0\) be a positive self-adjoint reference operator on a Hilbert space \(\Hilb\), and let \(P_N=\mathbf 1_{[0,N]}(H_0)\) be its spectral projections. For a time-dependent family of generally unbounded Hamiltonians \(H(t)\), we consider the finite-dimensional cut-off Hamiltonians \[ H_N(t)=P_NH(t)P_N . \] The corresponding propagators are represented by time-sliced finite dimensional oscillatory integrals. Under suitable \(H_0\)-relative regularity and stability assumptions, we prove convergence of these cut-off oscillatory amplitudes to the strong solution of the original Hamiltonian evolution equation \[ \ii \partial_t u(t)=H(t)u(t). \] In the periodic case, the same construction yields finite-dimensional effective Hamiltonians and provides a natural bridge with the Floquet--Magnus expansion for unbounded operators. We also discuss how spectral cut-offs may later be used to define renormalized traces of real-time amplitudes.