Regularity of eigenstates in regular Mourre-theory
by Jacob S. Møller and Matthias Westrich
Preprints
Number 6 (July 2010)
The present paper gives an abstract method to prove that possibly embedded eigenstates of a self-adjoint operator H lie in the domain of the k'th power of a conjugate operator A. Conjugate means here that H and A have a positive commutator locally near the relevant eigenvalue in the sense of Mourre. The only requirement is Ck+1(A) regularity of H. Regarding integer k, our result is optimal. Under a natural boundedness assumption of the multiple commutators we prove that the eigenstate dilated by exp(iθA) is analytic in a strip around the real axis. In particular, the eigenstate is an analytic vector with respect to A. Natural applications are dilation analytic systems satisfying a Mourre estimate, where our result can be viewed as an abstract version of a theorem due to Balslev and Combes, [3]. As a new application we consider the massive Spin-Boson Model.