The threshold effects for the two-particle Hamiltonians on lattices (Q852370)

The authors' aim is to give a mathematical treatment of the spectral properties for the two-particle lattice Hamiltonians \(H\) in dimensions \(d\geq 3\) with emphasis on new threshold phenomena that are not present in the continuous case. The operators \(H\) can be decomposed into the direct integral \(\simeq\int_{k\in{\mathfrak T}^d}\oplus h(k)\,dk\), where the fiber operators \(h(k)= h^0(k)+ v(k)\) can be considered as the one-particle Hamiltonians with the two-particle dispersion relations \(\varepsilon_k(p)= \varepsilon_1(p)+ \varepsilon_2(k- p)\), \(p\in\mathbb{T}^d\) (torus), with \(\varepsilon_\alpha(p)\) the dispersion relations for the particles \(\alpha= 1,2\). In accordance with the Weyl theorem, the essential spectrum of the operator \(h(k)\) fills in the interval: \(\sigma_{\text{ess}}(h(k))= [\varepsilon_{\min}(k), \varepsilon_{\max}(k)]\), where \(\varepsilon_{\min}(k)= \min_{q\in\mathbb{T}^d}\varepsilon_k(q)\), \(\varepsilon_{\max}(k)= \max_{q\in\mathbb{T}^d}\varepsilon_k(q)\). They obtain the following results under some conditions for \(v(p)\), \(\varepsilon_\alpha(p)\) etc.: for all \(k\in\mathbb{T}^d\setminus\{0\}\), the discrete spectrum of the fiber Hamiltonian \(h(k)\) below the bottom \(\varepsilon_{\min}(k)\) of its essential spectrum is a non-empty set.