Agmon-Kato-Kuroda theorems for a large class of perturbations (Q817951)

\textit{S. Agmon's} paper [Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci (4), 2, 151--218 (1975; Zbl 0315.47007)] constituted one of the most important contributions to the development of spectral and scattering theory for selfadjoint realizations \(H\) in \(L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{d})\) of the differential operators \(-\Delta + V\), \(-\Delta\) being the Laplacean and \(V\) a real potential. In the paper under review, results obtained by Agmon [loc. cit.] such as the discreteness of the set of non-zero eigenvalues, aymptotic completeness of the wave operators associated to \(H\) and to the selfadjoint realization of \(-\Delta\), are proved for a larger class of perturbations \(L\), called admissible perturbations by the authors. Among these admissible perturbations there are the multiplication operators with potentials \(V\in L^{q} (\mathbb{R}^{d})\), \(q\in [d/2, (d+1)/2]\) if \(d\geq3\) and \(q\in (1,3/2]\) if \(d=2\), with potentials \(V\) satisfying a generalization of Agmon's condition from the paper mentioned above, and symmetric first order differential operators under suitable conditions on the coefficients. Among these perturbations, one can find perturbations which do not satisfy a unique continuation property at infinity. The core of the proof consists in obtaining a new version of the limiting absorption principle using techniques from harmonic analysis to estimate oscillatory integrals.