Symmetrized perturbation determinants and applications to boundary data maps and Krein-type resolvent formulas (Q2881022)

First (in Theorem 2.8) the authors extend a trace formula associated to Fredholm perturbation determinants to a trace formula associated to symmetrized determinants. Then they consider the Robin-to-Robin boundary data maps (i.e. natural generalizations of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map) associated to a (regular) Schrödinger operator on a compact interval and derive an elegant formula (see Theorem 4.1) relating a symmetrized Fredholm perturbation determinant to the \(2 \times 2\) determinant of the boundary data map (one wonders whether: (i) the formula is also valid for a Schrödinger operator on an infinite interval, in the limit-circle case; (ii) an analog of Theorem 4.1 exists in higher dimensions). The last section of the paper presents a trace formula for resolvent differences of self-adjoint Schrödinger operators corresponding to different (separated) boundary conditions in terms of boundary data maps (Theorem 5.2) and in connection with the associated Krein's spectral shift function \(\xi\) (Theorem 5.3).