Spectra of self-adjoint extensions and applications to solvable Schrödinger operators

Reviews in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-70

  Brüning, Jochen ^a   Geyler, Vladimir ^a,b   Pankrashkin, Konstantin ^a,c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b OGAREV MORDOVIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

Point perturbations; Quantum graphs; Self adjoint extensions; Self adjoint operators; Spectral measure; Spectrum; Weyl function

Indexed keywords

EID: 41849098938     PISSN: 0129055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129055X08003249     Document Type: Article

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