Generalized interactions supported on hypersurfaces (Q2804959)

Let \(\Sigma\subset\mathbb R^n\), \(n\geq 2\), be the boundary of a (bounded or unbounded, not necessarily connected) Lipschitz domain \(\Omega=\Omega_{\mathrm i}\) and let \(\Omega_{\mathrm e} =\mathbb R^n\setminus (\Omega_{\mathrm i}\cup\Sigma)\). The authors consider a family of singular Schrödinger operators \(H\) with local singular interactions supported by \(\Sigma\). These operators are negative Laplacian on \(\mathbb R^n\backslash\Sigma\) subject to the interface conditions NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\partial_{\nu_{\mathrm i}} f_{\mathrm i}|_\Sigma+\partial_{\nu_{\mathrm e}}f_{\mathrm e}|_\Sigma=\frac{\alpha}{2}( f_{\mathrm i}|_\Sigma+f_{\mathrm e}|_\Sigma)+\frac{\gamma}{2}(\partial_{\nu_{\mathrm i}} f_{\mathrm i}|_\Sigma-\partial_{\nu_{\mathrm e}} f_{\mathrm e}|_\Sigma), NEWLINE\]NEWLINE NEWLINE\[NEWLINE f_{\mathrm i}|_\Sigma-f_{\mathrm e}|_\Sigma =-\frac{\overline{\gamma}}{2}( f_{\mathrm i}|_\Sigma +f_{\mathrm e}|_\Sigma)+\frac{\beta}{2}(\partial_{\nu_{\mathrm i}} f_{\mathrm i}|_\Sigma - \partial_{\nu_{\mathrm e}} f_{\mathrm e} |_\Sigma)NEWLINE\]NEWLINE on \(\Sigma\), where \(f_j = f |_{\Omega_j}\), \(j =\mathrm{i, e}\), \(f=f_{\mathrm i}\oplus f_{\mathrm e}\), \(\partial_{\nu_j} f |_\Sigma\) is the derivative of \(f\) with respect to the outer unit normal on \(\partial \Omega_j\), \(\alpha,\beta : \Sigma \to\mathbb R\), and \(\gamma : \Sigma \to\mathbb C\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe earlier studied case of \(\delta\)- and \(\delta'\)-interactions being particular cases.NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors investigate spectral properties of these operators and derive operator inequalities between those referring to the same hypersurface but different couplings \((\alpha,\beta,\gamma)\) and describe their implications for spectral properties (compactness of resolvent difference, finiteness of the discrete spectrum, position of the essential spectrum, the number of discrete eigenvalues below the bottom of the essential spectrum).