The translation invariant massive Nelson model: II. The continuous spectrum below the two-Boson threshold (Q1949812)

The massive Nelson model was introduced as a toy model for nucleon-meson interaction. In paper I [the first author, Ann. Henri Poincaré 6, No. 6, 1091--1135 (2005; Zbl 1090.81038)], the structure of the ground state mass shell and the continuous energy-momentum spectrum of the translation invariant massive Nelson model was investigated. Here the authors study the continuous energy-momentum spectrum itself up to the two-boson threshold, the threshold for energetic support of two-boson scattering states. The dynamics for such compound asymptotic systems at total momentum \(\xi\) is governed by a kinetic energy of the form \[ S^{(n)}(\xi; k_1,\dots, k_n):= S(\xi-k_1-\cdots- k_n)+ \omega(k_1)+\cdots+ \omega(k_n), \] where \(S\) is the dispersion relation for an effective particle, \(\omega\) is that of bosons, and \(k_1,\dots, k_n\) labels the momenta of \(n\) asymptotic bosons. From this expression, they get threshold at energies where \((k_1,\dots, k_n)\to S^{(n)}(\xi; k_1,\dots, k_n)\) has critical points. The bare particle Hamiltonian is \(\Omega(D_y)\), \(D_y=-i\nabla_y\) on \(K:= L^2(R^\nu_y)\). The free field energy is the second quantization of one-boson dispersion relation \[ d\Gamma(\omega)= \int_{R^\nu}\omega(k) a^*(k)a(k)\,dk, \] by using the creation and annihilation operators satisfying \([a(k), a^*(k')]= \delta(k-k')\) etc. \(H_0:= \Omega(D_y)\otimes 1_F+ 1_K\otimes d\Gamma(\omega)\) on the Hilbert space \(K\otimes F\), \(H:= H_0+V\) with \[ V:= \int_{R^\nu}(\exp(-ik\cdot y) g(k)1_K\otimes a^*(k)+ \exp(ik\cdot y)\overline{g(k)} 1_K\otimes a(k))\,dk. \] From two conditions to \(\Omega\) and \(\omega\), they derive two theorems. The authors prove that non-threshold embedded mass shells have finite multiplicity and can accumulate only at thresholds, and that non-existence of singular continuous energy-momentum spectrum. Their results hold true for all values of the particle-field coupling strength but only below the two-boson threshold.