Department of Mathematics, Lund Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden ; Dipartimento di Scienze, Università dell'Insubria, I-22100 Como, Italy
Abstract:
We show that the boundary conditions entering in the definition of the self-adjoint operator describing the Laplacian plus a finite number of point interactions are local if and only if the corresponding wave equation has finite speed of propagation.