Conceptual

Optimal Error Bounds for Exponential Wave Integrators for Fractional Schrodinger Equations

Rigorous convergence analysis of an exponential wave integrator (EWI) Fourier spectral scheme for the space-fractional nonlinear Schrodinger equation when the potential and nonlinearity have only low regularity. Under an L-infinity potential, a C1 nonlinearity and an H-alpha solution, it proves an optimal first-order L2 error bound in time and an optimal spatial bound with no CFL-type step-size restriction, plus sharper bounds in the energy norm. Shows how to obtain optimal, restriction-free error estimates for a fractional dispersive PDE at minimal smoothness.