Synopses & Reviews
Differential and more general self-adjoint operators involving singular interactions arise naturally in a range of subjects such as classical and quantum physics, chemistry, and electronics. This book is a systematic mathematical study of these operators, with particular emphasis on spectral and scattering problems. The methods discussed are based on a new concept of symplectic structure of the "boundary form." Suitable for researchers in analysis or mathematical physics, this volume could also be used as a text for an advanced course on the applications of analysis.
Review
'... gives a careful, well-written, mathematical exposition of the theory of Hamiltonians with point interactions and generalizations ... a valuable reference.' W. M. Greenlee, SIAM Review
Synopsis
This is a systematic mathematical study of differential (and more general self-adjoint) operators.
Synopsis
Differential (and more general self-adjoint) operators involving singular interactions arise naturally in a range of topics such as, classical and quantum physics, chemistry, and electronics. This book presents a systematic mathematical study of these operators, with particular emphasis on spectral and scattering problems. Suitable for researchers in analysis or mathematical physics, this book could also be used as a text for an advanced course on the applications of analysis.
Table of Contents
1. Rank one perturbations; 2. Generalized perturbations; 3. Finite rank perturbations; 4. Scattering theory; 5. Two-body problems; 6. Few-body problems; 7. Few-body in one dimension; Appendix: historical remarks.