Regularization and convergence for singular perturbations

DOI10.1007/BF02096943MaRDI QIDQ1201413zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hagen Neidhardt, V. A. Zagrebnov

Publication date 17 January 1993

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02096943

determination of selfadjoint extensions of Schrödinger's operator selfadjoint operator singular potentials

Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Perturbation theory of linear operators (47A55) Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded) (47B25) General theory of partial differential operators (47F05) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

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The authors prove a theorem in an abstract setting which is applicable to the determination of selfadjoint extensions of Schrödinger's operator when the potential is singular. Let \(A\) be a selfadjoint operator on Hilbert space \({\mathfrak h}\) and \(V\) a Hermitian operator such that for \(D\) dense in \((\text{dmn }A\cap\text{dmn }V)\), \((Vf,f)\leq a(Af,f)+ b(f,f)\), \(a<1\), \(b<\infty\), \(f\in D\). Define \(\{V_ n\}^ \infty_{n=1}\) to be a sequence of Hermitian operators \(\text{dmn }V_ n\supseteq\text{dmn }V\), \(H_ n= A-V_ n\), and let \(\gamma_ n\), \(\gamma\), \(\nu\) be symmetric forms \(\gamma_ n(f,g)= (V_ n f,g)\), \(\gamma(f,g)=(Vf,g)\), \(f,g\in D\), \(\nu(f,g)= (Af,g)\), \(f,g\in\text{dmn }A\). \(\widehat\nu(f,g)\) will be the closure of the symmetric form \(\nu_ 0(f,g)= \nu(f,g)\), \(f,g\in D\), and \(\widehat\gamma\) the extension of \(\gamma\) to \(\text{dmn}(\widehat\nu)\). The sequence \(\{V_ n\}\) is said to be a \(\widehat\nu\)-admissible regularizing sequence for \(V\) if (i) \(0\leq \gamma_ 1\leq\cdots\leq \gamma_ n\leq\cdots\leq \gamma\), (ii) \(\lim_{n\to\infty} \gamma_ n(f,f)= \gamma(f,f)\), \(f\in D\), (iii) \(\sup \gamma_ n (f,f)= \infty\) for all \(f\in M\), \(f\neq 0\), where \(M=\{h\mid h\in\text{dmn }\nu\), \(\nu(h,k)+ (h,k)= 0\), \(k\in\text{dmn}(\widehat\nu)\}\). It is proved that if \(\{V_ n\}\) is a \(\widehat\nu\)-admissible regularizing sequence for \(V\) and (iv) there exists an open set \(U\) and number \(\lambda\) such that \(U\subset(a,\infty)\), \(1\in U\), and \(\lambda<0\), \(\lambda<\inf(\widehat\nu- k^{-1}\widehat\gamma)\) for all \(k\in U\), \(\lambda\in\rho(H_ n)\), then s-\(\lim_{n\to\infty} (H_ n- z)^{-1}= (H- z)^{-1}\), \(z\in\{\lambda\}\cup (C^ 1\backslash R^ 1)\), defines a selfadjoint extension of \(A+ V\). If \(1\not\in U\) in (iv) then the results apply to \((A- k^{-1} V)\). Sufficient conditions are given for (iv) to hold. The theorem is applicable to determining selfadjoint extensions to the Schrödinger operator \((-\Delta)- k^{-1} V(x)\) corresponding to the singular potentials \(V(x)= {1\over 4}| x|^{-\alpha}\), \(0\leq \alpha\leq 2\) with \(k=1\) when \(\alpha<2\) and \(k>1\), \(\alpha=2\), \(0<x < \infty\).

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