Limiting absorption principle, generalized eigenfunctions, and scattering matrix for Laplace operators with boundary conditions on hypersurfaces (Q1624166)

Summary: We provide a limiting absorption principle for the self-adjoint realizations of Laplace operators corresponding to boundary conditions on (relatively open parts \(\Sigma\) of) compact hypersurfaces \(\Gamma= \partial \Omega\), \(\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n\). For any of such self-adjoint operators we also provide the generalized eigenfunctions and the scattering matrix; both these objects are written in terms of operator-valued Weyl functions. We make use of a Krein-type formula which provides the resolvent difference between the operator corresponding to self-adjoint boundary conditions on the hypersurface and the free Laplacian on the whole space \(\mathbb R^n\). Our results apply to all standard examples of boundary conditions, like Dirichlet, Neumann, Robin, \(\delta\) and \(\delta^\prime\)-type, either assigned on \(\Gamma\) or on \(\Sigma \subset \Gamma\).