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Spectral Pollution and How to Avoid It (With Applications to Dirac and Periodic Schrödinger Operators)

Mathieu Lewin
Eric Séré

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This paper, devoted to the study of spectral pollution, contains both abstract results and applications to some self-adjoint operators with a gap in their essential spectrum occuring in Quantum Mechanics. First we consider Galerkin basis which respect the decomposition of the ambient Hilbert space into a direct sum $H=PH\oplus(1-P)H$, given by a fixed orthogonal projector $P$, and we localize the polluted spectrum exactly. This is followed by applications to periodic Schrödinger operators (pollution is absent in a Wannier-type basis), and to Dirac operator (several natural decompositions are considered). In the second part, we add the constraint that within the Galerkin basis there is a certain relation between vectors in $PH$ and vectors in $(1-P)H$. Abstract results are proved and applied to several practical methods like the famous "kinetic balance" of relativistic Quantum Mechanics.
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hal-00346352 , version 1 (11-12-2008)

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Mathieu Lewin, Eric Séré. Spectral Pollution and How to Avoid It (With Applications to Dirac and Periodic Schrödinger Operators). Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 2010, 100 (3), pp.864-900. ⟨10.1112/plms/pdp046⟩. ⟨hal-00346352⟩
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