On a perturbation determinant for accumulative operators (Q2017893)

Let \(H=H_0-iV\), where \(H_0\) is a self-adjoint operator and \(V\geq 0\) is an element of the trace class. The main goal of the paper under review is to obtain new exponential representations for the perturbation determinant \(\text{det}_{H\slash H_0}(z)=\text{det}\left((H- z)(H_0 - z)^{-1}\right)\). For \(z\in {\mathbb C}_+\) the formula \[ \text{det}_{H/H_0}(z)=\exp\bigg (\frac{1}{\pi i} \int \frac{\zeta(\lambda)}{\lambda- z}\,d\lambda\bigg), \] \[ \zeta(\lambda)=\lim_{\varepsilon\to 0^+} \log \big |{\det}_{H/H_0}(\lambda+i\varepsilon)\big|\;\text{ for a.e. } \lambda\in {\mathbb R}, \] was proved recently by \textit{M. Malamud} and \textit{H. Neidhardt} [``Perturbation determinant and trace formulas for singular perturbations'', Preprint, \url{arxiv:1212.6887}]. The authors of the paper under review give a new proof of this formula and prove (for \(z\in{\mathbb C}_-\)) that \[ \text{det}_{H/H_0}(z)=e^{i\gamma-iaz}B(z) \exp \bigg(\frac{1}{\pi i}\int\limits_{\mathbb R} \frac{1+\lambda z}{\lambda-z}\,d\mu(\lambda)\bigg) \exp\bigg (-\frac{1}{\pi i} \int \frac{\zeta(\lambda)}{\lambda- z}\,d\lambda\bigg), \] where \(\gamma\in \mathbb R\), \(a\geq 0\), \(B(z)\) is the Blaschke product associated with the eigenvalues of \(H\) in \({\mathbb C}_-\), \(0\leq\mu\) is a finite Borel measure on \(\mathbb R\). Using these representations for the perturbation determinant, the authors obtain a trace formula for rational functions vanishing at infinity with poles in both \({\mathbb C}_-\) and \({\mathbb C}_+\).