The Schrödinger operator on the energy space: Boundedness and compactness criteria (Q698334): Difference between revisions

This paper deals with the property of the Schrödinger operator on the energy space. The authors present an complete solution to the problem of the relative form-boundedness of the potential energy operator \(V\) with respect to the Laplacian \(-\Delta\), which is fundamental to quantum mechanics. Moreover, the authors give both boundedness and compactness criteria for Sobolev spaces on domains \(\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^d\) under mild restrictions on \(\partial \Omega\). They obtain also criteria for the classical inequality \[ \left |\int_{\mathbb{R}^d} \bigl|u(x)\bigr |^2 V(x)dx\right |\leq C_* \int_{ \mathbb{R}^d} \bigl|\nabla u(x) \bigr|^2dx,\;u\in C_0^\infty (\mathbb{R}^d), \] to be hold, where the ``indefinite'' weight \(V\) may change sign, or even be a complex-valued distribution on \(\mathbb{R}^d\), \(d\geq 3\).