A multichannel scheme in smooth scattering theory (Q398189)

In the paper under review, the authors develop the scattering theory for the self-adjoint operators \(A_0=A_1\oplus\cdots\oplus A_N\) and \(A=A_1+\cdots+A_N\), where the \(A_j\) are self-adjoint operators such that the operators \(A_jA_k\), \(j\neq k\), satisfy certain assumptions. The authors show that the absolutely continuous parts of \(A_0\) and \(A\) are unitarily equivalent. Another result is that the singular continuous spectrum of \(A\) is empty. The authors' approach relies on a system of resolvent equations that is a generalization of Faddeev's equations for three particle quantum systems.