Sharp spectral stability for a class of singularly perturbed pseudo-differential operators (Q6146945)

Summary: Let \(a(x,\xi)\) be a real Hörmander symbol of the type \(S^0_{0,0} (\mathbb{R}^d \times \mathbb{R}^d)\), let \(F\) be a smooth function with all its derivatives globally bounded, and let \(K_{\delta}\) be the self-adjoint Weyl quantization of the perturbed symbols \(a(x+F(\delta x),\xi)\), where \(|\delta |\leq 1\). First, we prove that the Hausdorff distance between the spectra of \(K_{\delta}\) and \(K_0\) is bounded by \(\sqrt{|\delta |}\), and we give examples where spectral gaps of this magnitude can open when \(\delta \neq 0\). Second, we show that the distance between the spectral edges of \(K_{\delta}\) and \(K_0\) (and also the edges of the inner spectral gaps, as long as they remain open at \(\delta =0\)) are of order \(|\delta|\), and give a precise dependence on the width of the spectral gaps.