From quasimodes to resonances: exponentially decaying perturbations (Q494950)

We mainly reproduce the author's summary with some additional details. ``We consider self-adjoint operators of black-box type which are exponentially close to the free Laplacian near infinity, and prove an exponential bound for the resolvent in a strip away from resonances. We allow both metric and potential perturbations of the Laplacian outside a compact set (the black box), but require only minimal assumptions on the operator in the black box. Here the resonances are defined as poles of the meromorphic continuation of the resolvent between appropriate exponentially weighted spaces. We then use a local version of the maximum principle to prove that any cluster of real quasimodes generates at least as many resonances, with multiplicity, rapidly converging to the quasimodes.'' The author uses a complex analytic framework to deduce an exponential a priori bound on the weighted resolvent away from resonances.