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Essential Spectrum of Schrödinger Operators
with
$\delta$-Interactions on Unbounded Hypersurfaces
V. S. Rabinovich Instituto Politecnico Nacional, ESIME–Zacatenco
Abstract:
Let
$\Gamma$
be a simply connected unbounded
$C^{2}$-hypersurface in
$\mathbb{R}^{n}$
such that
$\Gamma$
divides
$\mathbb{R}^{n}$
into two unbounded domains
$D^{\pm}$.
We consider the essential spectrum of Schrödinger operators
on
$\mathbb{R}^{n}$
with surface
$\delta_{\Gamma}$-interactions
which can be written formally as
$$
H_{\Gamma}=-\Delta+W-\alpha_{\Gamma}\delta_{\Gamma},
$$
where
$-\Delta$
is the nonnegative Laplacian in
$\mathbb{R}^{n}$,
$W\in L^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$
is a real-valued electric potential,
$\delta_{\Gamma}$
is the Dirac
$\delta$-function
with the support on the hypersurface
$\Gamma$
and
$\alpha_{\Gamma}\in L^{\infty}(\Gamma)$
is a real-valued coupling coefficient depending of the
points of
$\Gamma$.
We realize
$H_{\Gamma}$
as an unbounded operator
$\mathcal{A}_{\Gamma}$
in
$L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$
generated by the Schrödinger operator
$$
H_{\Gamma}=-\Delta+W\qquad \text{on}\quad \mathbb{R}^{n}\setminus\Gamma
$$
and Robin-type transmission conditions on the
hypersurface
$\Gamma$.
We give a complete description of the essential spectrum
of
$\mathcal{A}_{\Gamma}$
in terms of the limit operators generated
by
$A_{\Gamma}$
and the Robin transmission conditions.
Keywords:
surface
$\delta$-interaction, self-adjoint realization,
Robin transmission conditions, limit operators, essential spectra.
UDC:
517 Received: 10.04.2017
DOI:
10.4213/mzm11780