A bound for ratios of eigenvalues of Schrödinger operators on the real line

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Authors Barnabás Apagyi, Márton Kiss

Publication date 29 July 2008

Published in Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

One-dimensional Schrödinger operatorratios of eigenvaluessingle-well potential.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sturm-Liouville theory (34B24) Eigenvalues, estimation of eigenvalues, upper and lower bounds of ordinary differential operators (34L15) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40)

Review text

Consider the one-dimensional Schrödinger equation \[ -y+q(x)y=\lambda y \quad{ on }(-\infty,+\infty) \] with the boundary condition \(\lim_{| x| \to\infty}y(x)=0\). Let the potential \(q\) be nonnegative, single-well (meaning that there is a point \(a\in(-\infty,\infty)\) such that \(q\) is decreasing in \((-\infty,a)\) and increasing in \((a,+\infty)\)) and \(\lim_{| x| \to\infty}=+\infty\). The authors prove that in this case the ratio of the \(n\)th and \(m\)th eigenvalue \((m<n)\) satisfies the estimate \(\lambda_n/\lambda_m<n^2/m^2\). Thus, they modify their result from [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 134, 1425--1434 (2006; Zbl 1098.34067)] which applied for operators defined on a finite segment.

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