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Classical scattering at low energies

Mathematical Physics 2007-05-23 v1 math.MP

Abstract

For a class of negative slowly decaying potentials including the attractive Coulombic one we study the classical scattering theory in the low-energy regime. We construct a (continuous) family of classical orbits parametrized by initial position xRdx\in \R^d, final direction ωSd1\omega\in S^{d-1} of escape (to infinity) and the energy λ0\lambda\geq 0, yielding a complete classification of the set of outgoing scattering orbits. The construction is given in the outgoing part of phase-space (a similar construction may be done in the incoming part of phase-space). For fixed ωSd1\omega\in S^{d-1} and λ0\lambda\geq 0 the collection of constructed orbits constitutes a smooth manifold that we show is Lagrangian. The family of those Lagrangians can be used to study the quantum mechanical scattering theory in the low-energy regime for the class of potentials considered here. We devote this study to a subsequent paper.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0604042,
  title  = {Classical scattering at low energies},
  author = {J. Derezinski and E. Skibsted},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0604042},
  year   = {2007}
}

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