Pseudodifference operators on weighted spaces, and applications to discrete schrödinger operators (Q1771173)

The authors study pseudodifference operators on \(\mathbb Z^N\) with symbols which are bounded on \(\mathbb Z^N\times T^N\) together with their derivatives w.r.t. the second variable. In the same manner as partial differential operators on \(\mathbb R^N\) are included in an algebra of pseudodifferential operators, difference operators on \(\mathbb Z^N\) are included in an algebra of pseudodifference operators. Particular attention is paid to the Fredholm properties of pseudodifference operators on general exponentially weighted spaces \(l_w^p(\mathbb Z^n)\) and to Phragmen-Lindelöf type theorems on the exponential decay at infinity of solutions to pseudodifference equations. The results are applied to describe the essential spectrum of discrete Schrödinger operators and the decay of their eigenfunctions at infinity.