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We provide a limiting absorption principle for self-adjoint realizations of Dirac operators with electrostatic and Lorentz scalar $\delta$-shell interactions supported on regular compact surfaces. Then we show completeness of the wave…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-15 Jussi Behrndt , Markus Holzmann , Andrea Mantile , Andrea Posilicano

Given a bounded smooth domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^3$, we explore the relation between couplings of the free Dirac operator $-i\alpha\cdot\nabla+m\beta$ with pure electrostatic shell potentials $\lambda\delta_{\partial\Omega}$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-14 Albert Mas

We study two-dimensional Dirac operators with singular interactions of electrostatic and Lorentzscalar type, supported either on a straight line or a circle. For certain critical values of the interaction strengths, the essential spectrum…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-02 William Borrelli , Pietro Carimati , Davide Fermi

Let $\Omega_+\subset\mathbb{R}^{3}$ be a fixed bounded domain with boundary $\Sigma = \partial\Omega_{+}$. We consider $\mathcal{U}^\varepsilon$ a tubular neighborhood of the surface $\Sigma$ with a thickness parameter $\varepsilon>0$, and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Mahdi Zreik

We develop an approach to prove self-adjointness of Dirac operators with boundary or transmission conditions at a $\mathcal{C}^2$-compact surface without boundary. To do so we are lead to study the layer potential induced by the Dirac…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos , Luis Vega

We consider various closed (and self-adjoint) extensions of elliptic differential expressions of the type $\cA=\sum_{0\le |\alpha|,|\beta|\le m}(-1)^\alpha D^\alpha a_{\alpha, \beta}(x)D^\beta$, $a_{\alpha, \beta}(\cdot)\in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2008-10-13 Fritz Gesztesy , Mark M. Malamud

We investigate the spectrum of three-dimensional Schr\"{o}dinger operators with $\delta$-interactions of constant strength supported on circular cones. As shown in earlier works, such operators have infinitely many eigenvalues below the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Thomas Ourmières-Bonafos , Konstantin Pankrashkin , Fabio Pizzichillo

In this article we investigate spectral properties of the coupling $H+V_\lambda$, where $H=-i\alpha\cdot\nabla +m\beta$ is the free Dirac operator in $\mathbb R^3$, $m>0$ and $V_\lambda$ is an electrostatic shell potential (which depends on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Naiara Arrizabalaga , Albert Mas , Luis Vega

This paper is devoted to the approximation of two and three-dimensional Dirac operators $H_{\widetilde{V} \delta_\Sigma}$ with combinations of electrostatic and Lorentz scalar $\delta$-shell interactions in the norm resolvent sense. Relying…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Jussi Behrndt , Markus Holzmann , Christian Stelzer-Landauer

The paper deals with singular Schr\"odinger operators of the form \begin{gather*} -{\mathrm{d}^2\over \mathrm{d} x^2 } + \sum_{k\in\mathbb{Z} }\gamma_k \delta(\cdot-z_k),\quad \gamma_k\in\mathbb{R}, \end{gather*} in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Jussi Behrndt , Andrii Khrabustovskyi

In this paper, new self-adjoint realizations of the Dirac operator in dimension two and three are introduced. It is shown that they may be associated with the formal expression $\mathcal{D}_0+|F\delta_\Sigma\rangle\langle G\delta_\Sigma|$,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Lukáš Heriban , Matěj Tušek

In this paper we study the spectrum of self-adjoint Schr\"odinger operators in $L^2(\mathbb{R}^2)$ with a new type of transmission conditions along a smooth closed curve $\Sigma\subseteq \mathbb{R}^2$. Although these $\textit{oblique}$…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-17 Jussi Behrndt , Markus Holzmann , Georg Stenzel

Spectral boundary conditions for Laplace-type operators, of interest in string and brane theory, are partly Dirichlet, partly Neumann-type conditions, partitioned by a pseudodifferential projection. We give sufficient conditions for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Gerd Grubb

We define Dirac operators on $\mathbb{S}^3$ (and $\mathbb{R}^3$) with magnetic fields supported on smooth, oriented links and prove self-adjointness of certain (natural) extensions. We then analyze their spectral properties and show, among…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Fabian Portmann , Jérémy Sok , Jan Philip Solovej

In this paper we consider the three-dimensional Schr\"{o}dinger operator with a $\delta$-interaction of strength $\alpha > 0$ supported on an unbounded surface parametrized by the mapping $\mathbb{R}^2\ni x\mapsto (x,\beta f(x))$, where…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-14 Pavel Exner , Sylwia Kondej , Vladimir Lotoreichik

In this work we consider the two-dimensional Dirac operator with general local singular interactions supported on a closed curve. A systematic study of the interaction is performed by decomposing it into a linear combination of four…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-04 Biagio Cassano , Vladimir Lotoreichik , Albert Mas , Matěj Tušek

We investigate spectral properties of Gesztesy-\v{S}eba realizations D_{X,\alpha} and D_{X,\beta} of the 1-D Dirac differential expression D with point interactions on a discrete set $X=\{x_n\}_{n=1}^\infty\subset \mathbb{R}.$ Here $\alpha…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-07-17 Raffaele Carlone , Mark Malamud , Andrea Posilicano

This paper is devoted to mathematical and physical properties of the Dirac operator and spectral geometry. Spin-structures in Lorentzian and Riemannian manifolds, and the global theory of the Dirac operator, are first analyzed. Elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Giampiero Esposito

Self-adjoint Schr\"odinger operators with $\delta$ and $\delta'$-potentials supported on a smooth compact hypersurface are defined explicitly via boundary conditions. The spectral properties of these operators are investigated, regularity…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-18 Jussi Behrndt , Matthias Langer , Vladimir Lotoreichik

The spectral eta function for certain families of Dirac operators on noncommutative $3$-torus is considered and the regularity at zero is proved. By using variational techniques, we show that $\eta_{D}(0)$ is a conformal invariant. By…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Ali Fathi , Masoud Khalkhali