Counterexamples to the $L^1$ and $L^{\infty}$ boundedness of the one-dimensional wave operators

Abstract

It is well established that the wave operators $W_{\pm}(H,-Δ)$ for the one-dimensional Schrödinger operator $H=-Δ+V(x)$ are bounded on $L^p(\mathbb{R})$ for all $1<p<\infty$ in both generic and exceptional cases. They are also bounded on $L^1(\mathbb{R})$ and $L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R})$ in the exceptional case with $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow-\infty}f_+(0,x)=1$. For the remaining endpoint cases, it has long been expected that they are generally unbounded at the endpoints $p=1,\infty$ due to the presence of the Hilbert transform in the low energy part, yet a rigorous proof has been missing. In this paper, we show that even for a bounded and compactly supported non-zero potential $V$, the wave operators $W_{\pm}(H,-Δ)$ are unbounded on $L^1(\mathbb{R})$ and $L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R})$ in the generic case, as well as in the exceptional case with the condition $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow-\infty}f_+(0,x)\neq1$. Moreover, in the latter case, they are even unbounded from $L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R})$ to ${\rm BMO}(\mathbb{R})$ (Bounded Mean Oscillation space). Hence together with those known results, our counterexamples complete the picture of the $L^{p}$ boundedness of one-dimensional wave operators.