Asymptotic completeness in dissipative scattering theory (Q1621461)

The paper enlight on a very important aspect of scattering theory for particles and fields, when the system has dissipation (absorption). The authors consider an abstract Pseudo-Hamiltonian for a nuclear optical model, when the Hamiltonian operator has a dissipative form given by: \(H=H_v-i C^\ast C\), where \(H_v=H_0+V\) is self-adjoint, and \(C\) is a bounded operator. The authors gives an exhaustive mathematical study of the properties of such an operator, important for scattering. The authors prove that both the \(H\) and \(H_0\) operators are asymptotically complete, if and only if \(H\) does not have spectral singularities on a real axis. If the operator is of Schrödinger type, the spectral singularities correspond to real singularities. The authors give explicit and straightforward proofs of the statements cited above.