Spectral properties of Schr\"odinger operator with translations and Neumann boundary conditions

Abstract

We consider a nonlocal differential--difference Schr\"odinger operator on a segment with the Neumann conditions and two translations in the free term. The values of the translations are denoted by $\alpha$ and $\beta$ and are treated as parameters. The spectrum of this operator consists of countably many discrete eigenvalues, which are taken in the ascending order of their absolute values and are indexed by the natural parameter $n.$ Our main result is the representation of the eigenvalues as convergent series in negative powers of $n$ with the coefficients depending on $n,$ $\alpha,$ and $\beta.$ We show that these series converge absolutely and uniformly in $n,$ $\alpha,$ and $\beta$ and they can be also treated as spectral asymptotics for the considered operator with uniform in $\alpha$ and $\beta$ estimates for the error terms. As an example, we find the four--term spectral asymptotics for the eigenvalues with the error term of order $O(n^{-3}).$ This asymptotics involves additional nonstandard terms and exhibits a non--trivial high--frequency phenomenon generated by the translations. We also establish that the system of eigenfunctions and generalized eigenfunctions of the considered operator forms the Bari basis in the space of functions square integrable on the unit segment.