Conditions for discreteness of the spectrum to Schrödinger operator via non-increasing rearrangement, Lagrangian relaxation and perturbations (Q2039334)

Consider the Schrödinger operator \(H=-\Delta +V(x)\) on \(L_2(\mathbb{R}^d)\) with \(d\ge3\). This paper investigates sufficient conditions for which \(H\) has discrete spectrum. Unlike its related results in other literature, the author intends to obtain practical conditions for having discrete spectrum that can be easily verified in practice. In his previous work, the author presented sufficient conditions for discrete spectrum in terms of non-increasing rearrangement of the potential \(V(x)\). In this paper, the author continues to look for further sufficient conditions for the same matter. The method of Lagrangian relaxation for optimization is applied to formulate a new result in terms of expectation and deviation of \(V(x)\). The paper also includes some results on perturbations of \(V(x)\) that preserve discreteness of the spectrum of \(H\).