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Propagation of singularities in many-body scattering

Analysis of PDEs 2007-05-23 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In this paper we describe the propagation of singularities of tempered distributional generalized eigenfunctions of many-body Hamiltonians under the assumption that no subsystem has a bound state and that the two-body interactions are real-valued polyhomogeneous symbols of order -1 (e.g. Coulomb-type with the singularity at the origin removed). Here the term 'singularity' provides a microlocal description of the lack of decay at infinity. We use this result to prove that the wave front relation of the free-to-free S-matrix (which, under our assumptions, is all of the S-matrix) is given by the broken geodesic relation, broken at the 'singular directions' (given by the collision planes) on the sphere, at time pi. We also present a natural geometric generalization to asymptotically Euclidean spaces.

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@article{arxiv.math/9906161,
  title  = {Propagation of singularities in many-body scattering},
  author = {Andras Vasy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9906161},
  year   = {2007}
}

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80 pages, 3 figures; submitted for publication