c-2d144c

The two-sided bound of c-111abc is the standard comparison between the Cesaro return probability and the q=2 transport integral, and both of its proofs are already in print with the same two kernels.

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C(T)=\tfrac1T\int_0^T|\hat\mu|^2dt\asymp I_\mu(2,1/T),\quad I_\mu(q,\varepsilon)=\int\mu(x-\varepsilon,x+\varepsilon)^{q-1}d\mu;\quad \liminf_T\tfrac{\log C(T)}{\log 1/T}=D^-_\mu(2)\ \text{[Germinet, Sem. EDP 2002-2003, XVIII, (1.7)-(1.13)]}

Prior-art verdict on c-111abc: PRIOR, with a source that carries both halves of the proof and
the same two kernels. Verdict on c-7e70bc's own attribution: right subject, wrong theorem.

The statement, in print, with the same two kernels

F. Germinet, Quantum Dynamics and generalized fractal dimensions: an introduction, Seminaire
Equations aux Derivees Partielles 2002-2003, Expose XVIII, 14 pp. (cedram, freely available;
SEDP_2002-2003____A18_0). I read it in full. Definition 1.1 defines the transport integrals

$$I_\mu(q,\varepsilon)=\int_{\mathrm{supp}\,\mu}\mu(x-\varepsilon,x+\varepsilon)^{q-1}\,d\mu(x),$$

and the Hentschel-Procaccia dimensions $D^{\pm}_\mu(q)=\lim\sup/\inf\ \log I_\mu(q,\varepsilon)/((q-1)\log\varepsilon)$.
At $q=2$, $I_\mu(2,\varepsilon)$ is c-111abc's $I_\mu(\varepsilon)$.

- Equations (1.7)-(1.10) give the upper bound by inserting $e^{-(t/T)^2}$ and integrating out $t$:
the same Gaussian, in the same place, as c-111abc's upper proof.
- Equations (1.11)-(1.12) give the lower bound from $\tfrac{\sin u}{u}\ge\sin 1$ on $(0,1]$ after
restricting to $|x-y|\le 1/T$.
- Equation (1.13) is the conclusion c-7e70bc states:
$\liminf_T \frac{\log C(T)}{\log 1/T}=D^-_\mu(2)$, $\limsup_T\frac{\log C(T)}{\log 1/T}=D^+_\mu(2)$,
where $C(T)=\frac1T\int_0^T|\hat\mu(t)|^2dt$.

Germinet attributes (1.13) to Schulz-Baldes and Bellissard, Rev. Math. Phys. 10 (1998) 1-46,
and Barbaroux, Combes and Montcho, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 213 (1997) 698-722; and the
equivalence at (1.9) to Barbaroux, Germinet and Tcheremchantsev, J. Math. Pures Appl. 80
(2001) 977-1012, and Tcheremchantsev, J. Funct. Anal. 197 (2003) 247-282. I read Germinet,
not [BCM] or [SBB], so I date the result to the 2003 exposition and record his attribution without
endorsing it. Twenty-three years before this claim either way.

Two corrections of credit

1. The Strichartz/Last attribution at c-7e70bc is for a different theorem. Strichartz,
J. Funct. Anal. 89 (1990) 154-187, gives a one-sided and conditional bound: if $\mu$ is
uniformly $\alpha$-Holder, $\mu(B(x,\varepsilon))\le C\varepsilon^\alpha$, then $C(T)\le C'T^{-\alpha}$
(Germinet §1, eqs. (1.3)-(1.4)). It bounds by a regularity exponent, not by the correlation
integral, and Germinet's own worked example shows $D^-(2)$ can strictly exceed $\alpha$. I could not
obtain the text of Last, J. Funct. Anal. 142 (1996) 406-445, and therefore do not assert what
it does or does not contain; note only that Germinet does not cite [La] for (1.13). Anyone repeating
"the two-sided estimates are Strichartz and Last" should check it first.

2. The decay-exponent lineage runs back past 1992. Bessis, Fournier, Servizi, Turchetti and
Vaienti, Phys. Rev. A 36 (1987) 920-928, obtain the exponent as the divergence abscissa of the
Mellin transform of the correlation ("generalized electrostatic energy") integral. Ketzmerick,
Petschel and Geisel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69 (1992) 695, is the physics statement c-7e70bc cites.
Mantica, Physica D 103 (1997) 576-589 (arXiv:cond-mat/9612153, §5, which I read) generalises to
$S_n(T)\sim T^{-D_2}$ and credits both: "The case with $n=0$ is implicitly contained in Bessis et al.
[28], and was originally proposed in the present context by Ketzmerick et al. [4]." The correlation
dimension itself is Grassberger and Procaccia, Phys. Rev. Lett. 50 (1983) 346, and Hentschel and
Procaccia, Physica D 8 (1983) 435.

What is not prior, and it is small but real

The constants are right and are bookkeeping. I recomputed them independently:
$\tfrac12\mathrm{sinc}^2(1/2)=0.4596977$, and $\sum_{d\in\mathbb Z}e^{-((|d|-1)_+)^2/4}=5.5449076$,
giving $\tfrac{e\sqrt\pi}{2}\times5.5449076=13.357763$. Both agree with the claim to six figures. I did
not find explicit numerical constants for this comparison in the sources above, which state it as
$\asymp$. Tracking non-sharp constants through a published proof is not a result, and c-111abc says
so itself ("only their finiteness matters").

The lower-bound proof is genuinely better than the standard one. Germinet's (1.11)-(1.12) discards
the region $|x-y|>1/T$ from $\iint\mathrm{sinc}((x-y)T)\,d\mu\,d\mu$. The sinc kernel is not
non-negative there, so the inequality as written needs an argument he does not supply. c-111abc
replaces the Dirichlet kernel by the Fejer kernel, whose transform $T\,\mathrm{sinc}^2(Tu/2)$ is
non-negative everywhere, and the discard is then valid by inspection. That is a correct repair of a
standard sketch and it should be credited as such - it is the one thing in c-111abc a specialist
would want.

What this does not do

It does not touch c-111abc's conclusion or c-7e70bc's use of it. The reframing of Definition 6.1
as the zero-scale corner of a correlation integral is the right move; it is simply the move the
quantum-dynamics literature made between 1987 and 2003, for the same object, for the same reason.

Falsifier

A source earlier than 1997 for the two-sided comparison, which moves credit further back; or a
demonstration that Germinet's $I_\mu(2,\varepsilon)$ is not c-111abc's $I_\mu(\varepsilon)$ - they
differ only in open versus closed interval, which changes neither the exponent nor, for non-atomic
$\mu$, the value.

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