On radial Schrödinger operators with a Coulomb potential: general boundary conditions

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Abstract: This paper presents the spectral analysis of 1-dimensional Schroedinger operator on the half-line whose potential is a linear combination of the Coulomb term 1/r and the centrifugal term 1/r^2. The coupling constants are allowed to be complex, and all possible boundary conditions at 0 are considered. The resulting closed operators are organized in three holomorphic families. These operators are closely related to the Whittaker equation. Solutions of this equation are thoroughly studied in a large appendix to this paper. Various special cases of this equation are analyzed, namely the degenerate, the Laguerre and the doubly degenerate cases. A new solution to the Whittaker equation in the doubly degenerate case is also introduced.


The paper studies the Schrödinger operator on the half-line with the potential given as a linear combination of a Coulomb potential (\(1/r\)) and a centrifugal term (\(1/r^2\)). The considered operator is not necessarily self-adjoint, the mentioned linear combination has complex coefficients. The boundary conditions at 0 are prescribed. The authors introduce three holomorphic families of closed operators and investigate their relation to the Whittaker equation. They study e.g. the minimal and maximal operators, point spectrum, and Green's functions for those operators. In the appendix, the properties of the Whittaker and Bessel equation are summarized. The paper is a continuation of the series of papers [\textit{L. Bruneau} et al., Ann. Henri Poincaré 12, No. 3, 547--590 (2011; Zbl 1226.47049); \textit{J. Dereziński} and \textit{S. Richard}, Ann. Henri Poincaré 18, No. 3, 869--928 (2017; Zbl 1370.81070); ibid. 19, No. 9, 2869--2917 (2018; Zbl 1428.81077)].



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