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Discreteness of spectrum and positivity criteria for Schrödinger operators
Vladimir Maz'ya1 ; Mikhail Shubin2
1 Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States
2 Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, United States
Annals of mathematics, Tome 162 (2005) no. 2, pp. 919-942.

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We provide a class of necessary and sufficient conditions for the discreteness of spectrum of Schrödinger operators with scalar potentials which are semibounded below. The classical discreteness of spectrum criterion by A. M. Molchanov (1953) uses a notion of negligible set in a cube as a set whose Wiener capacity is less than a small constant times the capacity of the cube. We prove that this constant can be taken arbitrarily between 0 and 1. This solves a problem formulated by I. M. Gelfand in 1953. Moreover, we extend the notion of negligibility by allowing the constant to depend on the size of the cube. We give a complete description of all negligibility conditions of this kind. The a priori equivalence of our conditions involving different negligibility classes is a nontrivial property of the capacity. We also establish similar strict positivity criteria for the Schrödinger operators with nonnegative potential
DOI : 10.4007/annals.2005.162.919

Vladimir Maz'ya 1 ; Mikhail Shubin 2

1 Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, United States
2 Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, United States 
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Vladimir Maz'ya; Mikhail Shubin. Discreteness of spectrum and positivity criteria for Schrödinger operators. Annals of mathematics, Tome 162 (2005) no. 2, pp. 919-942. doi : 10.4007/annals.2005.162.919. http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.4007/annals.2005.162.919/

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