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Spectral and scattering theory for some abstract QFT Hamiltonians

Mathematical Physics 2009-04-21 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We introduce an abstract class of bosonic QFT Hamiltonians and study their spectral and scattering theories. These Hamiltonians are of the form H=\d\G(ω)+VH=\d\G(\omega)+ V acting on the bosonic Fock space \G(ch)\G(\ch), where ω\omega is a massive one-particle Hamiltonian acting on ch\ch and VV is a Wick polynomial \Wick(w)\Wick(w) for a kernel ww satisfying some decay properties at infinity. We describe the essential spectrum of HH, prove a Mourre estimate outside a set of thresholds and prove the existence of asymptotic fields. Our main result is the {\em asymptotic completeness} of the scattering theory, which means that the CCR representations given by the asymptotic fields are of Fock type, with the asymptotic vacua equal to the bound states of HH. As a consequence HH is unitarily equivalent to a collection of second quantized Hamiltonians.

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@article{arxiv.0806.4597,
  title  = {Spectral and scattering theory for some abstract QFT Hamiltonians},
  author = {Christian Gérard and Annalisa Panati},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.4597},
  year   = {2009}
}