Spectral Theory

We consider Robin Laplace operators on a class of two-dimensional domains with cusps. Our main results include the formula for the asymptotic distribution of the eigenvalues of such operators. In particular, we show how the eigenvalue…

We show that the absolute values of non-positive eigenvalues of Schr\"odinger operators with complex potentials can be bounded in terms of L_p-norms of the potential. This extends an inequality of Abramov, Aslanyan, and Davies to higher…

This paper, devoted to the study of spectral pollution, contains both abstract results and applications to some self-adjoint operators with a gap in their essential spectrum occuring in Quantum Mechanics. First we consider Galerkin basis…

We provide a leading order semiclassical asymptotics of the energy of bound states for magnetic Neumann Schr\"odinger operators in two dimensional (exterior) domains with smooth boundaries. The asymptotics is valid all the way up to the…

In this paper we study a family of operators dependent on a small parameter $\epsilon > 0$, which arise in a problem in fluid mechanics. We show that the spectra of these operators converge to N as $\epsilon \to 0$, even though, for fixed…

Let $(G_\epsilon)_{\epsilon>0}$ be a family of '$\epsilon$-thin' Riemannian manifolds modeled on a finite metric graph $G$, for example, the $\epsilon$-neighborhood of an embedding of $G$ in some Euclidean space with straight edges. We…

Starting with an adjoint pair of operators, under suitable abstract versions of standard PDE hypotheses, we consider the Weyl M-function of extensions of the operators. The extensions are determined by abstract boundary conditions and we…

In this paper we study in detail some spectral properties of the magnetic discrete Laplacian. We identify its form-domain, characterize the absence of essential spectrum and provide the asymptotic eigenvalue distribution.

We present a variant of Mourre's commutator theory. We apply it to prove the limiting absorption principle for Schr\"odinger operators with a perturbed Wigner-Von Neumann potential at suitable energies. To our knowledge, this result is new…

We consider a self-adjoint two-dimensional Schr\"odinger operator $H_{\alpha\mu}$, which corresponds to the formal differential expression \[ -\Delta - \alpha\mu, \] where $\mu$ is a finite compactly supported positive Radon measure on…

We consider an open manifold which is the interior of a compact manifold with boundary. Assuming gauge invariance, we classify magnetic fields with compact support into being trapping or non-trapping. We study spectral properties of the…

We describe the spectrum of the $k$-form Laplacian on conformally cusp Riemannian manifolds. The essential spectrum is shown to vanish precisely when the $k$ and $k-1$ de Rham cohomology groups of the boundary vanish. We give Weyl-type…

We present a new oscillation criterion to determine whether the number of eigenvalues below the essential spectrum of a given Jacobi operator is finite or not. As an application we show that Kenser's criterion for Jacobi operators follows…

We consider Schr\"odinger operators on sparse graphs. The geometric definition of sparseness turn out to be equivalent to a functional inequality for the Laplacian. In consequence, sparseness has in turn strong spectral and functional…

Let $A$ be an irreducible (entrywise) nonnegative $n\times n$ matrix with eigenvalues $$\rho, b+ic,b-ic, \lambda_4,\cdots,\lambda_n,$$ where $\rho$ is the Perron eigenvalue. It is shown that for any $t \in [0, \infty)$ there is a…

We consider the difference $f(-\Delta +V)-f(-\Delta)$ of functions of Schr\"odinger operators in $L^2(\mathbb R^d)$ and provide conditions under which this difference is trace class. We are particularly interested in non-smooth functions…

We prove inverse spectral results for differential operators on manifolds and orbifolds invariant under a torus action. These inverse spectral results involve the asymptotic equivariant spectrum, which is the spectrum itself together with…

We consider Jacobi matrices and Schrodinger operators that are reflectionless on an interval. We give a systematic development of a certain parametrization of this class, in terms of suitable spectral data, that is due to Marchenko. Then…

In Communications in Mathematical Physics, no. 199, (1998), we have considered the Heun operator $\displaystyle{ H = a^* (a + a^*)a}$ acting on Bargmann space where $a$ and $a^{*}$ are the standard Bose annihilation and creation operators…

The article deals with a convergence of the spectrum of the Neumann Laplacian in a periodic unbounded domain $\Omega^\varepsilon$ depending on a small parameter $\varepsilon>0$. The domain has the form…