Several complex variables and the distribution of resonances in potential scattering (Q818598)

The author studies the number of resonances associated to Schrödinger operators with bounded potentials of compact support on \({\mathbb R}^d\) with \(d\geq 3\) odd. The potentials depend holomorphically on a parameter in a domain \(\Omega\), \(z\in \Omega \subset {\mathbb C}^m\), and the growth rate is shown to hold for all \(z\in \Omega\setminus E\) where \(E\) is a pluripolar set. The proof is based on methods from the theory of several complex variables. Let \(V(z,x)=\sum_{j=1}^{n} f_{j}(z)V_{j}(x)\) with \(f_{j}\) holomorphic on \(\Omega\) and \(V_{j}\in L_{\text{comp}}^{\infty}({\mathbb R}^d,{\mathbb C})\). Define the resonance counting function \(N_{V(z)}(r):=\#\{z_{j}\in {\mathcal R}_{V}\mid | z_{j}| <r\}\) where \({\mathcal R}_{V}\) is the set of poles of \((\Delta + V - \lambda^2)^{-1}\). Given that \[ \limsup_{r\to\infty}{\log N_{V(z)}(r)\over \log r} = d \tag{1} \] holds for some \(z_{0}\in \Omega\) it holds for all \(z\in \Omega \setminus E\), \(E\) pluripolar. This result can be viewed as a probabilistic lower bound of the resonance counting function. In an application it is shown for the special case \(V(z,x)= zV(x)\), where \(V\in L_{\text{comp}}^{\infty}({\mathbb R}^d,{\mathbb R})\) is bounded from below by the characteristic function of a ball the maximal growth rate (1) is attained for all \(z\in {\mathbb C}\setminus E\), \(E\) pluripolar. A corollary of these results provides that the sets of \(V\in L_{\text{comp}}^{\infty}({\mathbb R}^d,{\mathbb R})\) and of \(V\in L_{\text{comp}}^{\infty}({\mathbb R}^d, {\mathbb C})\) satisfying (1) are respectively dense in \(L_{\text{comp}}^{\infty}({\mathbb R}^d,{\mathbb R})\) and in \(L_{\text{comp}}^{\infty}({\mathbb R}^d, {\mathbb C})\) under the \(L^{\infty}\) norm. Furthermore, the results hold true if one replaces \(L_{\text{comp}}^{\infty}\) by \(C_{c}^{\infty}\) and the \(L^{\infty}\) norm by the \(C^{\infty}\) topology.