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Stark Hamiltonians with Hypersurface-Supported $\delta$-Interactions: Self-Adjoint Realization and Boundary Resolvent Formula

Mathematical Physics 2026-03-17 v3 math.MP

Abstract

We study Stark Hamiltonians with a δ\delta-interaction supported on a compact hypersurface in Rd\mathbb R^d. Let Σ\Sigma be a compact Lipschitz hypersurface and let αL(Σ;R)\alpha\in L^\infty(\Sigma;\mathbb R). We define the operator HF,αH_{F,\alpha} as a self--adjoint realization of the formal Hamiltonian HF,0+αδΣH_{F,0}+\alpha\delta_\Sigma by imposing transmission conditions across Σ\Sigma. We then derive a boundary resolvent formula which expresses the resolvent of HF,αH_{F,\alpha} in terms of the free Stark resolvent and a boundary operator on Σ\Sigma. This reduces the spectral problem to the boundary and shows that the interaction can be treated as a boundary perturbation at the resolvent level. As an application, we prove that for every nonzero electric field the resolvent difference between HF,αH_{F,\alpha} and HF,0H_{F,0} is compact on L2(Rd)L^2(\mathbb R^d). It follows that the essential spectrum of HF,αH_{F,\alpha} coincides with R\mathbb R. The argument is based on trace mapping properties for compact Lipschitz hypersurfaces and does not rely on translation invariance of the background operator.

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@article{arxiv.2509.01225,
  title  = {Stark Hamiltonians with Hypersurface-Supported $\delta$-Interactions: Self-Adjoint Realization and Boundary Resolvent Formula},
  author = {Masahiro Kaminaga},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.01225},
  year   = {2026}
}

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