Asymptotic completeness for Compton scattering (Q850940): Difference between revisions

From the abstract: Scattering in a model of a massive quantum-mechanical particle, an ``electron'', interacting with massless, relativistic bosons, ``photons'', is studied. The interaction term in the Hamiltonian of our model describes emission and absorption of ``photons'' by the ``electron''; but ``electron-positron'' pair production is suppressed. An ultraviolet cutoff and an infrared cutoff are imposed on the interaction term. In a range of energies where the propagation speed of the dressed ``electron'' is strictly smaller than the speed of light, unitarity of the scattering matrix is proven, provided the coupling constant is small enough; asymptotic completeness of Compton scattering is established. The proof combines a construction of dressed one-electron states with propagation estimates for the `electron' and the ``photons''.