Classical Wave methods and modern gauge transforms: Spectral Asymptotics in the one dimensional case

Abstract

In this article, we consider the asymptotic behaviour of the spectral function of Schrödinger operators on the real line. Let $H: L^2(\mathbb{R})\to L^2(\mathbb{R})$ have the form $$ H:=-\frac{d^2}{dx^2}+V, $$ where $V$ is a formally self-adjoint first order differential operator with smooth coefficients, bounded with all derivatives. We show that the kernel of the spectral projector, $\mathbb{1}_{(-\infty,ρ^2]}(H)$, has a complete asymptotic expansion in powers of $ρ$. This settles the 1-dimensional case of a conjecture made by the last two authors.