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Question related to: On the propagation of singularities in PDE and https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/164277/hypoellipticity-and-singular-support.

in what sense is to interpret the sentence the schrodinger operator has infinite propagation speed. And what about the fact that if there is a singularity at $t=0$, then at $t=\epsilon$ there isn't anymore?

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Consider the Schrodinger equation with an initial condition supported in a bounded region. At any positive $t$, the wave function is nonzero arbitrarily far away. In that sense, the particle can travel (albeit with small probability) at arbitrarily high speeds.

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    Could you provide some examples of this behavior?2012-06-28