On the spectrum of the Schrödinger Hamiltonian with a particular configuration of three one-dimensional point interactions (Q962557)

This paper deals with the spectrum of the Schrödinger Hamiltonian with a configuration of three equally spaced one-dimensional point interactions with the external ones having the same negative coupling constant. Although such an operator is a special case of one-dimensional Schrödinger Hamiltonians with finitely many point interactions studied by [\textit{S.\,Albeverio} and \textit{P.\,Kurasov}, ``Singular perturbations of differential operators.\ Solvable Schrödinger type operators'' (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 271; Cambridge University Press) (1999; Zbl 0945.47015)], this work brings it up that such a simple model provides various spectral combinations when the two coupling constants and the separation distance are manipulated. It describes all possible situations arising in the analysis of the discrete spectrum, ranging from the absence of negative eigenvalues to the case of having three eigenvalues. It is also shown that whenever such exited states arise, its spectrum is the same as the one of the Hamiltonian without the central delta. Furthermore, their results are used to confirm the fact that the Hamiltonian with such a configuration of three simple point interactions whose coupling constants undergo a special scaling in terms of the vanishing separation distance, converges in the norm resolvent sense to the Hamiltonian with an attractive \(\delta^{\prime}\)-interaction centred at the origin, as was shown by \textit{P.\,Exner, H.\,Neidhardt} and \textit{V.\,A.\thinspace Zagrebnov} [Commun.\ Math.\ Phys.\ 224, No.\,3, 593--612 (2002; Zbl 1161.81375)].