Characterization of infinitesimal boundedness of Schrödinger operator
Yanhan Chen
TL;DR
The paper characterizes weighted infinitesimal boundedness for the fractional Schrödinger operator $H=(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}+V$ in $L^{p}(w)$, proving equivalence between an $\varepsilon$-type bound and Carleson-type capacity conditions expressed via weighted Riesz/Bessel capacities. It develops a sparse domination framework to connect resolvent estimates with these capacitary conditions and extends Maz'ya–Verbitsky’s classical results to the weighted setting, including localization and capacity-theoretic methods. The work also provides corollaries for power weights and higher-order Trudinger-type inequalities, supported by weighted Poincaré and Gagliardo–Nirenberg inequalities, with implications for self-adjointness and spectral stability of Schrödinger operators. Overall, the results offer a robust capacitary characterization of infinitesimal boundedness in weighted fractional settings, along with practical criteria and corollaries for specific weight/potential choices.
Abstract
In this paper, we characterize the weighted infinitesimal boundedness: for $0<α<n$ and $1<p<\infty$, $$\|Vφ\|_{L^{p}(w)}^{p}\leqε\|(-Δ)^{\fracα{2}}φ\|_{L^{p}(w)}^{p}+C(ε)\|φ\|_{L^{p}(w)}^{p}.$$ In particular, we extend the classical result due to Maz'ya and Verbitsky by using Carleson condition, localization estimates and capacity theory.
