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The aim of this paper is to study relations between the location of the essential spectrum and the exponential decay of eigenfunctions of pseudodifferential operators on L p(ℝn) perturbed by singular potentials.
Our approach to this problem is via the limit operators method. This method associates with each band-dominated operator A a family op(A) of so-called limit operators which reflect the properties of A at infinity. Consider the compactification of ℝn by the “infinitely distant” sphere S n−1. Then the set op(A) can be written as the union of its components op ηω (A) where ω runs through the points of S n−1 and where op ηω (A) collects all limit operators of A which reflect the properties of A if one tends to infinity “in the direction of ω”. Set \( sp_{n_\omega } A: = \cup _{A_h \in op_{\eta \omega } (A)} spA_h \).
We show that the distance of an eigenvalue λ ∉ sp ess A to sp ηω A determines the exponential decay of the λ-eigenfunctions of A in the direction of ω. We apply these results to estimate the exponential decay of eigenfunctions of electro-magnetic Schrödinger operators for a large class of electric potentials, in particular, for multiparticle Schrödinger operators and periodic Schrödinger operators perturbed by slowly oscillating at infinity potentials.
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This work has been partially supported by CONACYT project 43432 and DFG Grant 444 MEX-112/2/05.
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Rabinovich, V.S., Roch, S. (2008). Essential Spectra of Pseudodifferential Operators and Exponential Decay of Their Solutions. Applications to Schrödinger Operators. In: Bastos, M.A., Lebre, A.B., Speck, FO., Gohberg, I. (eds) Operator Algebras, Operator Theory and Applications. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, vol 181. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8684-9_18
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