Form boundedness of the general second‐order differential Operator

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Abstract: We give explicit necessary and sufficient conditions for the boundedness of the general second order differential operator L with real- or complex-valued distributional coefficients acting from the Sobolev space W^{1,2}(R^n) to its dual W^{-1,2}(R^n). This enables us to obtain analytic criteria for the fundamental notions of relative form boundedness, compactness, and infinitesimal form boundedness of L with respect to the Laplacian on L^2(R^n). In particular, we establish a complete characterization of the form boundedness of the Schroedinger operator (i abla + a)^2 + q with magnetic vector potential a in L^2_{loc} and q in D'(R^n).





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