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The continuous singular spectrum of the Schrödinger operator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Martin Schechter
Affiliation:
Yeshiva University, New York

Abstract

We give sufficient conditions on the potential V(x) which ensure that the Schrödinger operator (1 · 1) of quantum mechanics has no singular continuous spectrum This generalizes previous results.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1980

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