The scattering matrix and associated formulas in Hamiltonian mechanics

DOI10.1007/S00220-009-0937-7MaRDI QIDQ625437zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Pushnitski, V. S. Buslaev

Publication date 17 February 2011

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.4172

zbMATH Keywords

classical and quantum scattering theoryHamiltonian mechanicsPoincaré scattering mapscattering matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Scattering theory, inverse scattering involving ordinary differential operators (34L25) Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

Abstract: We survey the basic notions of scattering theory in Hamiltonian mechanics with a particular attention to the analogies with scattering theory in quantum mechanics. We discuss the scattering symplectomorphism, which is analogous to the scattering matrix. We prove identities which relate the Calabi invariant of the scattering symplectomorphism to the total time delay and the regularised phase space volume. These identities are analogous to the Birman-Krein formula and the Eisenbud-Wigner formula in quantum scattering theory.

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