Semiclassical resolvent estimates for the barrier top energy (Q3978337)

(From author's introduction.) In this paper we consider semiclassical bounds on the boundary value of resolvent for Schrödinger operators at the barrier top energy. Estimates of this type, called semiclassical resolvent estimates, have been studied for nontrapping energies, and they are crucial in studying the asymptotic behavior of scattering data in the semiclassical limit. The barrier top energy is not nontrapping because it takes infinitely long time for a classical particle to reach the barrier top. A quantum particle, however, escapes from a bounded region in finite time by virtue of the uncertainty principle. Thus we can expect an analogous estimate, probably with a weaker bound: \(O(h^{-2})\), which is suggested by results on barrier top resonances.