Resonances in scattering by two magnetic fields at large separation and a complex scaling method (Q2445893)

There is considered a scattering system in two dimensions consisting of two obstacles, which make the magnetic fields to be completely shielded, and then the distance between the two obstacles are let to approach infinity. Under these assumptions, it is shown that the trajectories trapped between the two obstacles generate resonances whose location can be described in terms of the backward amplitudes of scattering for the two obstacles. Mathematically, the resonances are defined as the poles of the resolvent kernel, the Green function, which is meromorphically continued from the upper half plane of the complex plane to the lower half plane as a function of the spectral parameter. The method employed in this article requires to construct the resolvent kernel of magnetic Schrödinger operator with two compactly supported fields as a combination of the two resolvent kernels constructed for each field. Motivated by the fact that the vector potentials corresponding to the magnetic fields may not be well separated and the fact that the resolvent kernel grows exponentially at infinity in the lower half plane, the authors use a gauge transformation and develop a complex scaling method in order to overcome these difficulties.