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Soft quantum waveguides with an explicit cut-locus

Mathematical Physics 2022-08-22 v1 math.MP Spectral Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider two-dimensional Schroedinger operators with an attractive potential in the form of a channel of a fixed profile built along an unbounded curve composed of a circular arc and two straight semi-lines. Using a test-function argument with help of parallel coordinates outside the cut-locus of the curve, we establish the existence of discrete eigenvalues. This is a special variant of a recent result of Exner in a non-smooth case and via a different technique which does not require non-positive constraining potentials.

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@article{arxiv.2007.10946,
  title  = {Soft quantum waveguides with an explicit cut-locus},
  author = {Sylwia Kondej and David Krejcirik and Jan Kriz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.10946},
  year   = {2022}
}

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8 pages, 3 figures

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