Schrödinger operators with matrix potentials. Transition from the absolutely continuous to the singular spectrum

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2003.07.015MaRDI QIDQ1888355zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 23 November 2004

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0308012

\(L^2\)-conjecture absolutely continuous spectrum Schrödinger operator

Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) General theory of ordinary differential operators (47E05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

Abstract: It is proven that the absolutely continuous spectrum of matrix Schr"{o}dinger operators coincides (with the multiplicity taken into account) with the spectrum of the unperturbed operator if the (matrix) potential is square integrable. The same result is also proven for some classes of slower decaying potentials if they are smooth.

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The so-called ``spectral \(L^2\)-conjecture for the Schrödinger operator \(H=-d^2/dx^2 +v(x)\) is that if the potential \(v(x)\) is square-integrable, the absolutely continuous spectrum of \(H\) is equal to the set \([0,\infty)\) and the absolutely continuous component of its spectral measure is essentially supported on \([0,\infty)\). For the case of scalar potentials \(v(x)\), the conjecture was justified by \textit{R. Deift} and \textit{R. Kilip} [Commun. Math. Phys. 203, 341--347 (1999; Zbl 0934.34075)], and was further studied by the authors of the present paper in [\textit{S. Molchanov, M. Novitskii} and \textit{B. Vainberg}, Commun. Math. Phys. 216, 195--213 (2001; Zbl 0980.35149)] with a different approach which enabled them to observe further involved aspects. In the paper under review, the authors prove this conjecture for the matrix potentials case, extending their previous result for the scalar potentials case. The main result is: Let \(H= -\frac{d^2}{dx^2} +v(x)\) be the Schrödinger operator with a \(n\times n\) symmetric matrix-valued potential \(v(x)\) acting on functions \(\psi(x)\) in \(L^2({\mathbb R}_+)\otimes {\mathbb C}^n\) with the Neumann boundary condition \(\psi'(0)=0\). If \[ \begin{aligned} J_p(v) :&= \int_0^{\infty} \biggl[\biggl\| \frac{d^{p-1}}{dx^{p-1}}v(x)\biggr\| ^2 + \| v(x)\| ^{p+1} \biggr]\,dx\\ \biggl(J_0(v)&= \int_0^{\infty}\| v(x)\| \,dx,\,\, J_1(v)= \int_0^{\infty}\| v(x)\| ^2\,dx\biggr) \end{aligned} \] is finite for some \(p \geq 0\), then the spectral measure \(\mu(d\lambda)\) of the selfadjoint operator \(H\) has the absolutely continuous component of multiplicity \(n\) which is essentially supported on \([0,\infty)\).

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