REPRESENTATION OF THE SPECTRAL SHIFT FUNCTION AND SPECTRAL ASYMPTOTICS FOR TRAPPING PERTURBATIONS

We obtain in the semi-classical setup of “black-box” long-range perturbations a representation for the derivative of spectral shift function ξ(λ) related to two self-adjoint operators L _j (h), j = 1,2. We show that the derivative ξ′(λ) is estimated by the norms of the cut-off resolvents of the operators L _j (h). Finally, we establish a Weyl type formula for the spectral shift function ξ(λ) generalizing the results of Robert 19] Robert, D. 1994. Relative time-delay for perturbations of elliptic operators and semiclassical asymptotics. J. Funct. Anal., 126: 36–82. Crossref], Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar] and Christiansen 5] Christiansen, T. 1998. Spectral asymptotics for general compactly supported perturbations of the Laplacian on Rⁿ. Comm. P.D.E., 23: 933–947. Taylor & Francis Online], Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar].