TY - JOUR
T1 - On the absence of positive eigenvalues of Schrödinger operators with rough potentials
AU - Ionescu, Alexandru D.
AU - Jerison, David
N1 - Funding Information:
The first author was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under NSF Grant No. 0100021. The second author was supported in part by NSF grant DMS 0070412.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - We prove the absence of positive eigenvalues of Schrödinger operators H = -Δ + V on Euclidean spaces ℝn for a certain class of rough potentials V. To describe our class of potentials fix an exponent q ∈ [n/2, ∞] (or q ∈ (1, ∞] if n = 2) and let β(q) = (2q - n)/(2g). For the potential V we assume that V ∈ Lloc n/2(ℝn) (or V ∈ Llocr (ℝn), r > 1, if n = 2) and limR→∞ Rβ(q)∥V∥Lq(R≤|x|≤2R) = 0. Under these assumptions we prove that the operator H does not admit positive eigenvalues. The case q = ∞ was considered by Kato [K]. The absence of positive eigenvalues follows from a uniform Carleman inequality of the form ∥W mu∥la(Lp′(q))(ℝn) ≤ C q∥Wm|x|β(q) (Δ + 1)u∥ la(Lp(q))(ℝn) for all smooth compactly supported functions u and a suitable sequence of weights Wm, where p(q) and p′(q) are dual exponents with the property that 1/p(q) - 1/p′(q) = 1/q.
AB - We prove the absence of positive eigenvalues of Schrödinger operators H = -Δ + V on Euclidean spaces ℝn for a certain class of rough potentials V. To describe our class of potentials fix an exponent q ∈ [n/2, ∞] (or q ∈ (1, ∞] if n = 2) and let β(q) = (2q - n)/(2g). For the potential V we assume that V ∈ Lloc n/2(ℝn) (or V ∈ Llocr (ℝn), r > 1, if n = 2) and limR→∞ Rβ(q)∥V∥Lq(R≤|x|≤2R) = 0. Under these assumptions we prove that the operator H does not admit positive eigenvalues. The case q = ∞ was considered by Kato [K]. The absence of positive eigenvalues follows from a uniform Carleman inequality of the form ∥W mu∥la(Lp′(q))(ℝn) ≤ C q∥Wm|x|β(q) (Δ + 1)u∥ la(Lp(q))(ℝn) for all smooth compactly supported functions u and a suitable sequence of weights Wm, where p(q) and p′(q) are dual exponents with the property that 1/p(q) - 1/p′(q) = 1/q.
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U2 - 10.1007/s00039-003-0439-2
DO - 10.1007/s00039-003-0439-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0347578223
SN - 1016-443X
VL - 13
SP - 1029
EP - 1081
JO - Geometric and Functional Analysis
JF - Geometric and Functional Analysis
IS - 5
ER -