On the number of bound states for Schrdinger operators with operator-valued potentials.pdfVIP

ON THE NUMBER OF BOUND STATES FOR SCHRO?DINGER OPERATORS WITH OPERATOR-VALUED POTENTIALS DIRK HUNDERTMARK Abstract. Cwikel’s bound is extended to an operator-valued setting. One application of this result is a semi-classical bound for the number of negative bound states for Schro?dinger operators with operator-valued potentials. We recover Cwikel’s bound for the Lieb–Thirring constant L0,3 which is far worse than the best available by Lieb (for scalar potentials). However, it leads to a uniform bound (in the dimension d ≥ 3) for the quotient L0,d/L cl 0,d, where L cl 0,d is the so-called class