Principle of limiting absorbtion for N-body Schrödinger operators. A remark on the commutator method (Q2640055)

The author considers the N-body Schrödinger operator H\({}_ 0+V=\sum_{1\leq j<k\leq N}V_{jk}(x_{j,k})\), \(x_{j,k}=x_ j-x_ k\in R^ 3\), where \(V_{jk}=V^ s_{jk}+V^{\ell}_{jk}\) satisfies the estimates \[ | V^ s_{jk}(y)| \leq C(1+| y|)^{-(1+\rho)}\text{ and } | \partial_ y^{\alpha}V^{\ell}_{jk}(y)| \leq C(1+| y|)^{-(| \alpha | +\rho)}. \] Under these conditions it is shown that results as good as those first obtained by Ikebe and Saito and Lavine for the limiting absorption principle for two body Schrödinger operators continue to hold. In fact, it is shown that if \(\lambda\) is neither in the point spectrum nor a threshold point of H and if \(X_{\beta}\), \(\beta >1/2\), denotes the multiplication operator by \((1+| y|)^{-\beta}\), \(y\in R^{3(N-1)}\) then \[ \| X_{\beta}(H- (\lambda^{\pm}ik)^{-1}X_{\beta}\| =O(1)\quad as\quad k\downarrow 0, \] while boundary values \(X_{\beta}(H-\lambda^{\pm}i0)^{- 1}X_{\beta}\) in operator norm. The author employs in the proof of this theorem a differential inequality technique due to Mourre.