Absence of the absolutely continuous spectrum of a first-order non-selfadjoint Dirac-like system for slowly decaying perturbations (Q1005725)

The absolutely continuous spectrum of maximal dissipative operators associated to Dirac-like systems of the form \(J\tfrac{d}{dx}+Q(x)\), where \[ J=\begin{pmatrix} 0 & i\\ i & 0\end{pmatrix}\qquad\text{and}\qquad Q(x)=\begin{pmatrix} q_1(x) & 0\\ 0 & q_2(x)\end{pmatrix} \] in \(L^2(\mathbb R_+,\mathbb C^2)\) is studied. The main theorem states that for \(\text{Im}\,q_i\geq 0\) and \(\text{Im}\,q_i\not\in L^1(\mathbb R_+)\), \(i=1,2\), the operator \(L\) has no absolutely continuous spectrum. The result is an analogue of a similar type of theorem for maximal dissipative Schrödinger operators on the half-line obtained earlier by one of the others.