Miller's Aharonov–Casher lower-bound conjecture

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Let B(x)≥0B(x)\ge 0 be a magnetic field with flux

Φ:=12π∫B,\Phi:= \frac{1}{2\pi}\int B,

which may be infinite, and let HH denote the corresponding Pauli operator. Miller's conjecture. The dimension of its kernel should satisfy

dim⁡Ker⁡(H)≥⌊Φ⌋.\dim\operatorname{Ker}(H)\ge \lfloor\Phi\rfloor.

The conjecture was recalled from Miller, but the source states that it is false; the paper gives a counterexample to the Aharonov–Casher theorem for a continuous bounded field with infinite total variation, finite limiting flux greater than 11, and trivial kernel.

References

Primary source

Laszlo Erdos and Vitali Vougalter, “Pauli operator and Aharonov Casher theorem for measure valued magnetic fields”, arXiv:math-ph/0109015 (2001).

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