On the point spectrum of electromagnetic Dirac operators
Abstract In this work, we develop the method of multipliers for electromagnetic Dirac operators and establish sufficient conditions on the magnetic and electric fields that guarantee the absence of point spectrum. In the massless case, our approach covers Coulomb-type potentials of the form $$V(x)=\frac{1}{|x|} \big (\nu \mathbb {I}+ \mu \beta + i \delta \beta \big (\varvec{\alpha }\cdot \frac{x}{|x|} \big ) \big ).$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>V</mml:mi> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>x</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:mo>=</mml:mo> <mml:mfrac> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>|</mml:mo> <mml:mi>x</mml:mi> <mml:mo>|</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mfrac> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:mi>ν</mml:mi> <mml:mi>I</mml:mi> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> <mml:mi>μ</mml:mi> <mml:mi>β</mml:mi> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> <mml:mi>i</mml:mi> <mml:mi>δ</mml:mi> <mml:mi>β</mml:mi> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>α</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:mo>·</mml:mo> <mml:mfrac> <mml:mi>x</mml:mi> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>|</mml:mo> <mml:mi>x</mml:mi> <mml:mo>|</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mfrac> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:mo>.</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> We also adapt the method to show absence of embedded eigenvalues above a threshold which depends on the asymptotic behaviour of the magnetic and electric fields.
Authors
- Naiara Arrizabalaga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2805-4380)
- Lucrezia Cossetti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5690-9147)
- Matías Morales (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5540-9725)
Institutions
- University of the Basque Country (ES)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations
- Published
- 2026-04-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-026-03304-6
- Primary Topic
- Spectral Theory in Mathematical Physics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Eusko Jaurlaritza
- Agencia Estatal de Investigación