Simon's absolutely continuous spectrum conjecture for multidimensional Schrödinger operators

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Let H=−Δ+V(x)H=-\Delta+V(x) act on Rd\mathbb{R}^{d}, where VV is a potential satisfying

∫RdV2(x)∣x∣d−1+1 dx<+∞.\int\limits_{\mathbb{R}^{d}}\frac{V^{2}(x)}{|x|^{d-1}+1}\,dx<+\infty.

Here σac(H)\sigma_{ac}(H) denotes the absolutely continuous spectrum of HH, and R+\mathbb{R}^{+} denotes the nonnegative real axis. Simon's conjecture. Under these assumptions,

σac(H)=R+.\sigma_{ac}(H)=\mathbb{R}^{+}.

The conjecture concerns preservation of absolutely continuous spectrum under slowly decaying perturbations of the free Schrödinger operator in dimensions greater than one. The source states that, despite some progress, it remains open.

References

Primary source

Sergey A. Denisov, “On the preservation of absolutely continuous spectrum for Schrodinger operators”, arXiv:math-ph/0501046 (2005).

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