Spectral theory of piecewise continuous functions of self-adjoint operators

DOI10.1112/PLMS/PDT049MaRDI QIDQ4979767zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Pushnitski, Dmitri Yafaev

Publication date 19 June 2014

Published in Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3582

zbMATH Keywords

absolutely continuous spectrumscattering theoryself-adjoint operatorspectral theorysymmetrized Hankel operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Scattering theory of linear operators (47A40) Perturbation theory of linear operators (47A55) Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded) (47B25) Toeplitz operators, Hankel operators, Wiener-Hopf operators (47B35)

Abstract: Let $H_0$, $H$ be a pair of self-adjoint operators for which the standard assumptions of the smooth version of scattering theory hold true. We give an explicit description of the absolutely continuous spectrum of the operator $mathcal{D}_{h}eta=heta(H)-heta(H_0)$ for piecewise continuous functions $heta$. This description involves the scattering matrix for the pair $H_0$, $H$, evaluated at the discontinuities of $heta$. We also prove that the singular continuous spectrum of $mathcal{D}_{h}eta$ is empty and that the eigenvalues of this operator have finite multiplicities and may accumulate only to the "thresholds" of the absolutely continuous spectrum of $mathcal{D}_{h}eta$. Our approach relies on the construction of "model" operators for each jump of the function $heta$. These model operators are defined as certain symmetrised Hankel operators which admit explicit spectral analysis. We develop the multichannel scattering theory for the set of model operators and the operator $heta(H)-heta(H_0)$. As a by-product of our approach, we also construct the scattering theory for general symmetrised Hankel operators with piecewise continuous symbols.

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