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arxiv: math/9906161 · v1 · submitted 1999-06-24 · 🧮 math.AP · math-ph· math.MP

Propagation of singularities in many-body scattering

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keywords brokengivenmany-bodypropagationrelations-matrixsingularitiessingularity
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In this paper we describe the propagation of singularities of tempered distributional generalized eigenfunctions of many-body Hamiltonians under the assumption that no subsystem has a bound state and that the two-body interactions are real-valued polyhomogeneous symbols of order -1 (e.g. Coulomb-type with the singularity at the origin removed). Here the term 'singularity' provides a microlocal description of the lack of decay at infinity. We use this result to prove that the wave front relation of the free-to-free S-matrix (which, under our assumptions, is all of the S-matrix) is given by the broken geodesic relation, broken at the 'singular directions' (given by the collision planes) on the sphere, at time pi. We also present a natural geometric generalization to asymptotically Euclidean spaces.

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