Arithmetic Scar Accessibility and Generic Schrodinger Control on Metric Graphs
Abstract
We study internal exact controllability of the free Schrödinger equation on finite compact metric graphs with Kirchhoff conditions at interior vertices and a fixed Dirichlet-Neumann assignment at exterior vertices. For a prescribed primitive cycle or exterior-to-exterior path, we identify an arithmetic criterion ensuring that the corresponding scar is accessible by exact high-frequency eigenfunctions of a fixed target metric. The criterion is formulated by intersecting the regular scar stratum of the secular set with the orbit-closure torus of the target length vector, and it can hold for resonant metrics beyond the rationally independent class. Under an intrinsic Diophantine condition on the orbit-closure flow, the construction is quantitative: along an exact eigensequence the mass outside the prescribed support decays polynomially, yielding a polynomial degeneration law for finite-frequency observation when that support is uncontrolled. Rationally independent metrics have full phase-orbit closure and therefore make every primitive obstruction accessible. Combining this spectral result with the known graph-theoretic characterization and sufficiency of the Graph Geometric Control Condition (GGCC), we prove that, for every rationally independent and hence for Lebesgue-almost every metric, GGCC is necessary and sufficient for exact controllability at every positive time in the free setting.
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BibTeX
@misc{nguyen2026arithmetic,
title = {{Arithmetic Scar Accessibility and Generic Schrodinger Control on Metric Graphs}},
author = {Binh T. Nguyen},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.09758},
eprint = {2609.09758},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09758},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Arithmetic Scar Accessibility and Generic Schrodinger Control on Metric Graphs
AU - Binh T. Nguyen
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/09
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.09758
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09758
AB - We study internal exact controllability of the free Schrödinger equation on finite compact metric graphs with Kirchhoff conditions at interior vertices and a fixed Dirichlet-Neumann assignment at exterior vertices. For a prescribed primitive cycle or exterior-to-exterior path, we identify an arithmetic criterion ensuring that the corresponding scar is accessible by exact high-frequency eigenfunctions of a fixed target metric. The criterion is formulated by intersecting the regular scar stratum of the secular set with the orbit-closure torus of the target length vector, and it can hold for resonant metrics beyond the rationally independent class. Under an intrinsic Diophantine condition on the orbit-closure flow, the construction is quantitative: along an exact eigensequence the mass outside the prescribed support decays polynomially, yielding a polynomial degeneration law for finite-frequency observation when that support is uncontrolled. Rationally independent metrics have full phase-orbit closure and therefore make every primitive obstruction accessible. Combining this spectral result with the known graph-theoretic characterization and sufficiency of the Graph Geometric Control Condition (GGCC), we prove that, for every rationally independent and hence for Lebesgue-almost every metric, GGCC is necessary and sufficient for exact controllability at every positive time in the free setting.
ER -