C 0-Groups, Commutator Methods and Spectral Theory of N-Body Hamiltonians

by Werner O. Amrein

The conjugate operator method is a powerful recently develop- ed technique for studying spectral properties of self-adjoint operators. One of the purposes of this volume is to present a refinement of the original method due to Mourre leading to essentially optimal results in situations as varied as ordinary differential operators, pseudo-differential operators and N- body Schrödinger hamiltonians. Another topic is a new algeb- raic framework for the N-body problem allowing a simple and systematic treatment of large classes of many-channel hamil- tonians. The monograph will be of interest to...