A strategy for self-adjointness of Dirac operators: Applications to the MIT bag model and delta-shell interactions

DOI10.5565/PUBLMAT6221804arXiv1612.07058MaRDI QIDQ6281099FDOQ6281099

Authors: Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos, L. Vega 

Publication date: 21 December 2016

Abstract: We develop an approach to prove self-adjointness of Dirac operators with boundary or transmission conditions at a $mathcal{C}^2$-compact surface without boundary. To do so we are lead to study the layer potential induced by the Dirac system as well as to define traces in a weak sense for functions in the appropriate Sobolev space. Finally, we introduce Calder'on projectors associated with the problem and illustrate the method in two special cases: the well-known MIT bag model and an electrostatic $delta$-shell interaction.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary values of solutions to elliptic equations and elliptic systems (35J67) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded) (47B25) Boundary value problems on manifolds (58J32) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Integral representations, integral operators, integral equations methods in higher dimensions (31B10)

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