Ground states and associated path measures in the renormalized Nelson model

We prove the existence, uniqueness, and strict positivity of ground states of the possibly massless renormalized Nelson operator under an infrared regularity condition and for Kato decomposable electrostatic potentials fulfilling a binding condition. If the infrared regularity condition is violated, then we show non-existence of ground states of the massless renormalized Nelson operator with an arbitrary Kato decomposable potential. Furthermore, we prove the existence, uniqueness, and strict positivity of ground states of the massless renormalized Nelson operator in a non-Fock representation where the infrared condition is unnecessary. Exponential and superexponential estimates on the pointwise spatial decay and the decay with respect to the boson number for elements of spectral subspaces below localization thresholds are provided. Moreover, some continuity properties of ground state eigenvectors are discussed. Byproducts of our analysis are a hypercontractivity bound for the semigroup and a new remark on Nelson’s operator theoretic renormalization procedure. Finally, we construct path measures associated with ground states of the renormalized Nelson operator. Their analysis entails improved boson number decay estimates for ground state eigenvectors, as well as upper and lower bounds on the Gaussian localization with respect to the field variables in the ground state. As our results on uniqueness, positivity, and path measures exploit the ergodicity of the semigroup, we restrict our attention to one matter particle. All results are non-perturbative.

Approximation by interpolation spectral subspaces of operators with discrete spectrum

The Laguerre transform is applied to the convolution product of functions of a real argument (over the time axis) with values in Hilbert spaces. The main results have been obtained by establishing a relationship between the Laguerre and Laplace transforms over the time variable with respect to the elements of Lebesgue weight spaces. This relationship is built using a special generating function. The obtained dependence makes it possible to extend the known properties of the Laplace transform to the case of the Laguerre transform. In particular, this approach concerns the transform of a convolution of functions. The Laguerre transform is determined by a system of Laguerre functions, which forms an orthonormal basis in the weighted Lebesgue space. The inverse Laguerre transform is constructed as a Laguerre series. It is proven that the direct and the inverse Laguerre transforms are mutually inverse operators that implement an isomorphism of square-integrable functions and infinite squares-summable sequences. The concept of a q-convolution in spaces of sequences is introduced as a discrete analogue of the convolution products of functions. Sufficient conditions for the existence of convolutions in the weighted Lebesgue spaces and in the corresponding spaces of sequences are investigated. For this purpose, analogues of Young’s inequality for such spaces are proven. The obtained results can be used to construct solutions of evolutionary problems and time-dependent boundary integral equations.

Decomposability of Krein space operators

In this paper, we review some properties in the local spectral theory and various subclasses of decomposable operators. We prove that every Krein space selfadjoint operator having property (?) is decomposable, and clarify the relation between decomposability and property (?) for J-selfadjoint operators. We prove the equivalence of these properties for J-selfadjoint operators T and T* by using their local spectra and local spectral subspaces.

Spectral approximations of strongly degenerate elliptic differential operators

We establish analytical estimates of spectral approximations errors for strongly degenerate elliptic differential operators in the Lebesgue space $L_q(\Omega)$ on a bounded domain $\Omega$. Elliptic operators have coefficients with strong degeneration near boundary. Their spectrum consists of isolated eigenvalues of finite multiplicity and the linear span of the associated eigenvectors is dense in $L_q(\Omega)$. The received results are based on an appropriate generalization of Bernstein-Jackson inequalities with explicitly calculated constants for quasi-normalized Besov-type approximation spaces which are associated with the given elliptic operator. The approximation spaces are determined by the functional $E\left(t,u\right)$, which characterizes the shortest distance from an arbitrary function ${u\in L_q(\Omega)}$ to the closed linear span of spectral subspaces of the given operator, corresponding to the eigenvalues such that not larger than fixed ${t>0}$. Such linear span of spectral subspaces coincides with the subspace of entire analytic functions of exponential type not larger than ${t>0}$. The approximation functional $E\left(t,u\right)$ in our cases plays a similar role as the modulus of smoothness in the functions theory.

Continuity properties of the semi-group and its integral kernel in non-relativistic QED

Employing recent results on stochastic differential equations associated with the standard model of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics by B. Güneysu, J. S. Møller, and the present author, we study the continuity of the corresponding semi-group between weighted vector-valued [Formula: see text]-spaces, continuity properties of elements in the range of the semi-group, and the pointwise continuity of an operator-valued semi-group kernel. We further discuss the continuous dependence of the semi-group and its integral kernel on model parameters. All these results are obtained for Kato decomposable electrostatic potentials and the actual assumptions on the model are general enough to cover the Nelson model as well. As a corollary, we obtain some new pointwise exponential decay and continuity results on elements of low-energetic spectral subspaces of atoms or molecules that also take spin into account. In a simpler situation where spin is neglected, we explain how to verify the joint continuity of positive ground state eigenvectors with respect to spatial coordinates and model parameters. There are no smallness assumptions imposed on any model parameter.