Heat traces and existence of scattering resonances for bounded potentials

From MaRDI portal



Abstract: We show that, in odd dimensions, any real valued, bounded potential of compact support has at least one scattering resonance. For dimensions three and higher this was previously known only for sufficiently smooth potentials. The proof is based on an inverse result, which states that the trace of the associated heat kernel has an appropriate asymptotic expansion if and only if the potential is smooth.


The authors consider the Schrödinger operator NEWLINE\[NEWLINE P_V = -\triangle + V (x),\quad \eqno{(1)} NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(V\in L_c^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^n; \mathbb{R})\) is a bounded, compactly supported, real valued potential and \(n\geq 3\) is an odd number, with the aim to answer the question about the quantity of scattering resonances.NEWLINENEWLINEScattering resonances are defined as poles of the meromorphic continuation of the resolvent for \(n\geq 3\) NEWLINE\[NEWLINER_V (\lambda) := (-\triangle + V - \lambda^2)^{-1}, \quad n \quad \text{odd}, \quad \eqno{(2)}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE from Im\(\lambda\gg 1\) to \(\lambda \in \mathbb{C}\).NEWLINENEWLINEIt is proved for \(n\geq 3\) that, in odd dimensions, any real valued, bounded potential with compact support has at least one scattering resonance that was known earlier only for sufficiently smooth potentials.



Cites work









This page was built for publication: Heat traces and existence of scattering resonances for bounded potentials

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q332184)