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Peter Stollmann

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Essential self-adjointness, generalized eigenforms, and spectra for the $\bar\partial$-Neumann problem on $G$-manifolds

Let $M$ be a strongly pseudoconvex complex manifold which is also the total space of a principal $G$-bundle with $G$ a Lie group and compact orbit space $\bar M/G$. Here we investigate the $\bar\partial$-Neumann Laplacian on $M$. We show that it is essentially self-adjoint on its restriction to compactly supported smooth forms. Moreover we relate its spectrum to the existence of generalized eigenforms: an energy belongs to $σ(\square)$ if there is a subexponentially bounded generalized eigenform for this energy. Vice versa, there is an expansion in terms of these well-behaved eigenforms so that, spectrally, almost every energy comes with such a generalized eigenform.

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Percolation Hamiltonians

There has been quite some activity and progress concerning spectral asymptotics of random operators that are defined on percolation subgraphs of different types of graphs. In this short survey we record some of these results and explain the necessary background coming from different areas in mathematics: graph theory, group theory, probability theory and random operators.

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Heat kernel estimates for the $\bar\partial$-Neumann problem on $G$-manifolds

We prove heat kernel estimates for the $\bar\partial$-Neumann Laplacian acting in spaces of differential forms over noncompact, strongly pseudoconvex complex manifolds with a Lie group symmetry and compact quotient. We also relate our results to those for an associated Laplace-Beltrami operator on functions.

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Anderson localization for a multi-particle model with alloy-type external potential

We establish exponential localization for a multi-particle Anderson model in a Euclidean space of an arbitrary dimension, in presence of a non-trivial short-range interaction and an alloy-type random external potential. Specifically, we prove that all eigenfunctions with eigenvalues near the lower edge of the spectrum decay exponentially.

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Compactness of Schrödinger semigroups

This paper is concerned with emptyness of the essential spectrum, or equivalently compactness of the semigroup, for perturbations of selfadjoint operators that are bounded below (on an L^2-space). For perturbations by a (nonnegative) potential we obtain a simple criterion for compactness of the semigroup in terms of relative compactness of the operators of multiplication with characteristic functions of sublevel sets. In the context of Dirichlet forms, we can even characterize compactness of the semigroup for measure perturbations. Here, certain 'averages' of the measure outside of compact sets play a role. As an application we obtain compactness of semigroups for Schrödinger operators with potentials whose sublevel sets are thin at infinity.

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Delone measures of finite local complexity and applications to spectral theory of one-dimensional continuum models of quasicrystals

We study measures on the real line and present various versions of what it means for such a measure to take only finitely many values. We then study perturbations of the Laplacian by such measures. Using Kotani-Remling theory, we show that the resulting operators have empty absolutely continuous spectrum if the measures are not periodic. When combined with Gordon type arguments this allows us to prove purely singular continuous spectrum for some continuum models of quasicrystals.

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Sch'nol's Theorem For Strongly Local Forms

We prove a variant of Sch'nol's theorem in a general setting: for generators of strongly local Dirichlet forms perturbed by measures. As an application, we discuss quantum graphs with $δ$- or Kirchhoff boundary conditions.

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Spectral asymptotics of the Laplacian on supercritical bond-percolation graphs

We investigate Laplacians on supercritical bond-percolation graphs with different boundary conditions at cluster borders. The integrated density of states of the Dirichlet Laplacian is found to exhibit a Lifshits tail at the lower spectral edge, while that of the Neumann Laplacian shows a van Hove asymptotics, which results from the percolating cluster. At the upper spectral edge, the behaviour is reversed.

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Localization near fluctuation boundaries via fractional moments and applications

We present a new, short, self-contained proof of localization properties of multi-dimensional continuum random Schrödinger operators in the fluctuation boundary regime. Our method is based on the recent extension of the fractional moment method to continuum models in by Aizenman et al, but does not require the random potential to satisfy a covering condition. Applications to random surface potentials and potentials with random displacements are included.

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Bounds on the spectral shift function and the density of states

We study spectra of Schrödinger operators on $\RR^d$. First we consider a pair of operators which differ by a compactly supported potential, as well as the corresponding semigroups. We prove almost exponential decay of the singular values $μ_n$ of the difference of the semigroups as $n\to \infty$ and deduce bounds on the spectral shift function of the pair of operators. Thereafter we consider alloy type random Schrödinger operators. The single site potential $u$ is assumed to be non-negative and of compact support. The distributions of the random coupling constants are assumed to be Hölder continuous. Based on the estimates for the spectral shift function, we prove a Wegner estimate which implies Hölder continuity of the integrated density of states.

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Generic sets in spaces of measures and generic singular continuous spectrum for Delone Hamiltonians

We show that geometric disorder leads to purely singular continuous spectrum generically. The main input is a result of Simon known as the ``Wonderland theorem''. Here, we provide an alternative approach and actually a slight strengthening by showing that various sets of measures defined by regularity properties are generic in the set of all measures on a locally compact metric space. As a byproduct we obtain that a generic measure on euclidean space is singular continuous.

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