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Semiclassical measures of eigenfunctions of the attractive Coulomb operator

Analysis of PDEs 2025-07-01 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Spectral Theory

Abstract

We characterize the set of semiclassical measures corresponding to sequences of eigenfunctions of the attractive Coulomb operator H^:=22ΔR31x\widehat{H}_{\hbar}:=-\frac{\hbar^2}{2}\Delta_{\mathbb{R}^3}-\frac{1}{|x|}. In particular, any Radon probability measure on the fixed negative energy hypersurface ΣE\Sigma_E of the Kepler Hamiltonian HH in classical phase space that is invariant under the regularized Kepler flow is the semiclassical measure of a sequence of eigenfunctions of H^\widehat{H}_{\hbar} with eigenvalue EE as 0\hbar \to 0. The main tool that we use is the celebrated Fock unitary conjugation map between eigenspaces of H^\widehat{H}_{\hbar} and ΔS3-\Delta_{\mathbb{S}^3}. We first prove that for any Kepler orbit γ\gamma on ΣE\Sigma_E, there is a sequence of eigenfunctions that converge in the sense of semiclassical measures to the delta measure supported on γ\gamma as 0\hbar \to 0, and we finish using a density argument in the weak-* topology.

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@article{arxiv.2303.09640,
  title  = {Semiclassical measures of eigenfunctions of the attractive Coulomb operator},
  author = {Nicholas Lohr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.09640},
  year   = {2025}
}

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23 pages, final version. To appear in Annales Henri Poincar\'e