Spherically symmetric Dirac operators with variable mass and potentials infinite at infinity (Q5931097)

Summary: We study the spectrum of spherically symmetric Dirac operators in the three-dimensional space with potentials tending to infinity at infinity under weak regularity assumptions. We prove that purely absolutely continuous spectrum covers the whole real line if the potential dominates the mass or scalar potential term. In the situation where the potential and the scalar potential are identical, the positive part of the spectrum is purely discrete; we show that the negative half-line is filled with purely absolutely continuous spectrum in this case.