Self-adjointness of the 2D Dirac Operator with Singular Interactions Supported on Star Graphs

0558934 - ÚJF 2024 RIV CH eng J - Journal Article
Frymark, Dale - Lotoreichik, Vladimir
Self-adjointness of the 2D Dirac Operator with Singular Interactions Supported on Star Graphs.
Annales Henri Poincare. Roč. 24, JAN (2023), s. 179-221. ISSN 1424-0637. E-ISSN 1424-0661
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA21-07129S
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Keywords : Dirac operator * Singular interactions
OECD category: Atomic, molecular and chemical physics (physics of atoms and molecules including collision, interaction with radiation, magnetic resonances, Mössbauer effect)
Impact factor: 1.5, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00023-022-01213-w

We consider the two-dimensional Dirac operator with Lorentz-scalar delta-shell interactions on each edge of a star graph. An orthogonal decomposition is performed which shows such an operator is unitarily equivalent to an orthogonal sum of half-line Dirac operators with off-diagonal Coulomb potentials. This decomposition reduces the computation of the deficiency indices to determining the number of eigenvalues of a one-dimensional spin-orbit operator in the interval (-1/2,1/2). If the number of edges of the star graph is two or three, these deficiency indices can then be analytically determined for a range of parameters. For higher numbers of edges, it is possible to numerically calculate the deficiency indices. Among others, examples are given where the strength of the Lorentz-scalar interactions directly change the deficiency indices, while other parameters are all fixed and where the deficiency indices are (2,2), neither of which have been observed in the literature to the best knowledge of the authors. For those Dirac operators which are not already self-adjoint and do not have 0 in the spectrum of the associated spin-orbit operator, the distinguished self-adjoint extension is also characterized.
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