The Lax--Phillips scattering approach and singular perturbation of Schrödinger operator homogeneous with respect to scaling transformations (Q818027)

In [\textit{S.~Kuzhel}, Ukr.\ Mat.\ Zh.\ 55, No.~5, 621--630 (2003); translation in Ukr.\ Math.\ J.\ 55, No.~5, 749--760 (2003; Zbl 1100.47521)], the first author gave a condition on the positive selfadjoint operator \(L\) equivalent to the existence of outgoing and incoming spaces, in the sense of Lax and Phillips, for the general wave equation \(u_{tt}=-Lu\). In the paper under review, this result is applied to the case of singular perturbations of the Laplacian. Namely, the authors prove that the aforementioned result is applicable to a class of operators of the form \(-\Delta +V\), \(V:W^{2}_{2}(\mathbb{R}^{3})\rightarrow W^{-2}_{2}(\mathbb{R}^{3})\) (here, \(W^{2}_{2}\) is the Sobolev space of order 2) homogeneous with respect to the scaling transformations \((G(t)f)(x)=t^{3/2}f(tx)\). Consequently, the existence and unitarity of the wave operators associated to such perturbations and a description of the scattering matrix are obtained.