Semiclassical estimates of the cut-off resolvent for trapping perturbations (Q361726)

The authors of this very interesting paper study the cut-off resolvent of a semiclassical ``black box'' operator \(P\). Consider the resolvent of \(P\) truncated in rings \(\mathcal{C}_{a,b}=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^n: a<|x|<b\}\) far away from the origin. The operator \(\mathbb{I}_{\mathcal{C}_{a,b}}(P-z)^{-1}\mathbb{I}_{\mathcal{C}_{a,b}}\) appears in the representation of the scattering amplitude for compact perturbations. Introduce the norm of the cut-off resolvent \(\varphi (P-z)^{-1}\varphi \) for any \(\varphi \in C_0^{\infty }(\mathbb{R}^n)\). The first result (Theorem 1.1) is the estimate \[ \| \varphi (P-z)^{-1}\varphi \|\leq Ce^{C| \operatorname{Im} z|/h}\|\chi (P-z)^{-1}\chi \| \text{ for some } C>0, \] where \(\varphi , \chi \in C_0^{\infty }(\mathbb{R}^n)\) are two cut-off functions with \(\chi\) satisfying some conditions, and \(\|\cdot \|\) denotes both the norm of the Hilbert space \(\mathcal{H}\) and the operator norm on \(\mathcal{H}\). The second and main result (Theorem 1.2) is the estimation of \(\varphi (P-z)^{-1}\varphi \) by the norm of the cut-off resolvent \(\mathbb{I}_{\mathcal{C}_{a,b}}(P-z)^{-1}\mathbb{I}_{\mathcal{C}_{a,b}}\). Also, the resonant states \(u\) of the operator \(P\) are investigated. Some bounds for the norm \(\|\varphi u\|\) expressed by \(\|\mathbb{I}_{\mathcal{C}_{a,b}}u\|\) are obtained. Scattering by obstacles is discussed as well.