A Phase Space Criterion for Dynamical Amrein-Berthier Uncertainty

Abstract

We prove a phase space criterion for dynamical Amrein-Berthier uncertainty principles. The abstract result says that, for a Fourier integral operator $A\in FIO(\chi)$ associated with a tame canonical transformation $\chi$, the localized operator $\mathbf{1}_E A\mathbf{1}_F$ is compact on $L^2(\mathbb {R}^d)$ whenever $\chi$ satisfies a vertical non refocusing condition: high frequency covectors issued from a spatially localized region cannot return to a vertical direction over the observation region. In the linear symplectic case this condition is equivalent to the familiar nondegeneracy $\det B\neq0$ of the upper right block of the symplectic matrix. We apply this compactness theorem to Schr\"{o}dinger propagators for Yajima--type Hamiltonians, including quadratic electric and linear magnetic growth, and obtain two--time Amrein--Berthier inequalities for compact localization sets at all nonrefocusing times. The result extends the compactness mechanism behind the dynamical Amrein-Berthier principle to a genuinely microlocal setting.