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$L^p$ boundedness of wave operators for higher order schr\"odinger operators with threshold eigenvalues

Analysis of PDEs 2025-06-23 v1 Spectral Theory

Abstract

We consider the higher order Schr\"odinger operator H=(Δ)m+V(x)H=(-\Delta)^m+V(x) in nn dimensions with real-valued potential VV when n>2mn>2m, mNm\in \mathbb N when HH has a threshold eigenvalue. We adapt our recent results for m1m\geq 1 when n>4mn>4m to lower dimensions 2m<n4m2m<n\leq 4m to show that when HH has a threshold eigenvalue and no resonances, the wave operators are bounded on Lp(Rn)L^p(\mathbb R^n) for the natural range 1p<2nn11\leq p<\frac{2n}{n-1} when nn is odd and 1p<2nn21\leq p<\frac{2n}{n-2} when nn is even. We further show that if the zero energy eigenfunctions are orthogonal to xαV(x)x^\alpha V(x) for all α<k0|\alpha|<k_0, then the wave operators are bounded on 1p<n2mk01\leq p<\frac{n}{2m-k_0} when k0<2mk_0<2m in all dimensions n>2mn>2m. The range is p[1,)p\in [1,\infty) and p[1,]p\in[1,\infty] when k0=2mk_0=2m and k0>2mk_0>2m respectively. The proofs apply in the classical m=1m=1 case as well and streamlines existing arguments in the eigenvalue only case, in particular the L(Rn)L^\infty(\mathbb R^n) boundedness is new when n>3n>3.

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@article{arxiv.2506.16378,
  title  = {$L^p$ boundedness of wave operators for higher order schr\"odinger operators with threshold eigenvalues},
  author = {M. Burak Erdogan and William R. Green and Kevin LaMaster},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.16378},
  year   = {2025}
}

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29 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2407.07069