A Hardy-type inequality and some spectral characterizations for the Dirac-Coulomb operator

We prove a sharp Hardy-type inequality for the Dirac operator. We exploit this inequality to obtain spectral properties of the Dirac operator perturbed with Hermitian matrix-valued potentials V of Coulomb type: we characterise its eigenvalues in terms of the Birman–Schwinger principle and we bound i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Cassano, B., Pizzichillo, F., Vega, L.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM)
Repositorio:BIRD. BCAM's Institutional Repository Data
OAI Identifier:oai:bird.bcamath.org:20.500.11824/1088
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11824/1088
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Dirac operator
Coulomb potential
Hardy inequality
self-adjoint operator
spectral properties
ground state
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Sumario:We prove a sharp Hardy-type inequality for the Dirac operator. We exploit this inequality to obtain spectral properties of the Dirac operator perturbed with Hermitian matrix-valued potentials V of Coulomb type: we characterise its eigenvalues in terms of the Birman–Schwinger principle and we bound its discrete spectrum from below, showing that the ground-state energy is reached if and only if V verifies some rigidity conditions. In the particular case of an electrostatic potential, these imply that V is the Coulomb potential.