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Non-self-adjoint operators, infinite determinants, and some applications

Fritz Gesztesy·Yuri Latushkin·Marius Mitrea·Maxim Zinchenko
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We study various spectral theoretic aspects of non-self-adjoint operators. Specifically, we consider a class of factorable non-self-adjoint perturbations of a given unperturbed non-self-adjoint operator and provide an in-depth study of a variant of the Birman-Schwinger principle as well as local and global Weinstein-Aronszajn formulas. Our applications include a study of suitably symmetrized (modified) perturbation determinants of Schrödinger operators in dimensions n=1,2,3 and their connection with Krein's spectral shift function in two- and three-dimensional scattering theory. Moreover, we study an appropriate multi-dimensional analog of the celebrated formula by Jost and Pais that identifies Jost functions with suitable Fredholm (perturbation) determinants and hence reduces the latter to simple Wronski determinants.

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Fritz Gesztesy, Yuri Latushkin, Marius Mitrea, Maxim Zinchenko. 2020-05-05. Non-self-adjoint operators, infinite determinants, and some applications. https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0511371

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