Recovering the Hamiltonian from spectral data

DOI10.1090/TRAN/6566MaRDI QIDQ2796090zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Hériveaux, T. Paul

Publication date 23 March 2016

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5102

zbMATH Keywords

Fourier integral operatorsinverse spectral problemsSchrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Pseudodifferential operators as generalizations of partial differential operators (35S05) Pseudodifferential and Fourier integral operators on manifolds (58J40) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: We show that the contributions to the Gutzwiller formula with observable associated to the iterates of a given elliptic nondegenerate periodic trajectory $gamma$ and to certain families of observables localized near $gamma$ determine the quantum Hamiltonian in a formal neighborhood of the trajectory $gamma$, that is the full Taylor expansion of its total symbol near $gamma$. We also treat the "bottom of a well" case both for general and Schr"odinger operators.

Review text

Similarly to the original question set by \textit{M. Kac} [Am. Math. Mon. 73, 1--23 (1966; Zbl 0139.05603)] ``Can one hear the shape of a drum?, we may wonder whether in quantum mechanics we can recover the Hamiltonian from the spectral data. The issue has been considered in several papers, in particular for the Schrödinger operator \(-h^2\Delta+ V(x)\), see for example \textit{V. Guillemin} and \textit{A. Uribe} [Math. Res. Lett. 14, No. 4, 623-632 (2007; Zbl 1138.35006)].NEWLINENEWLINE Here the authors present a collection of interesting results on the subject. Rather than precise information on the eigenvalues, they take as starting point the trace of \textit{M. Gutzwiller} [J. Math. Phys. 12, 343--358 (1971; \url{doi:10.1063/1.1665596})] and fix attention on the case of an elliptic non-degenerate periodic trajectory \(\lambda\), possibly reduced to a point. From this, they are able to deduce the full Taylor expansion in a neighborhood of \(\lambda\) of the potential \(V(x)\) or the quantum Hamiltonian \(H(x,\eta)\) in the general case.

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