A quantum graph is a graph equipped with a self-adjoint differential or pseudo-differential Hamiltonian. Such graphs have been studied recently in relation to some problems of mathematics, physics and chemistry. The paper has a survey nature and is devoted to the description of some basic notions concerning quantum graphs, including the boundary conditions, self-adjointness, quadratic forms, and relations between quantum and combinatorial graph models.

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Quantum graphs: I. Some basic structures

The five sections of these notes will one day be the first five chapters of a book, to appear some time after 2001.

Spectra and pseudospectra

Quantum mechanics and the theory of operators on Hilbert space have been deeply linked since their beginnings in the early twentieth century States of a quantum system correspond to certain elements of the configuration space and observables correspond to certain operators on the space This book is a brief, but self-contained, introduction to the mathematical methods of quantum mechanics, with a view towards applications to Schrodinger operators Part 1 of the book is a concise introduction to the spectral theory of unbounded operators Only those topics that will be needed for later applications are covered The spectral theorem is a central topic in this approach and is introduced at an early stage Part 2 starts with the free Schrodinger equation and computes the free resolvent and time evolution Position, momentum, and angular momentum are discussed via algebraic methods Various mathematical methods are developed, which are then used to compute the spectrum of the hydrogen atom Further topics include the nondegeneracy of the ground state, spectra of atoms, and scattering theory This book serves as a self-contained introduction to spectral theory of unbounded operators in Hilbert space with full proofs and minimal prerequisites: Only a solid knowledge of advanced calculus and a one-semester introduction to complex analysis are required In particular, no functional analysis and no Lebesgue integration theory are assumed It develops the mathematical tools necessary to prove some key results in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics Mathematical Methods in Quantum Mechanics is intended for beginning graduate students in both mathematics and physics and provides a solid foundation for reading more advanced books and current research literature This new edition has additions and improvements throughout the book to make the presentation more student friendly

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Mathematical Methods in Quantum Mechanics

Introduction Uniform estimates on the $p$-Laplacian, limits as $p\to\infty$ The transport set and transport rays Differentiability and smoothness properties of the potential Generic properties of transport rays Behavior of the transport density along rays Vanishing of the transport density at the ends of rays Approximate mass transfer plans Passage to limits a.e. Optimality Appendix: Approximating semiconcave and semiconvex functions by $C^2$ functions Bibliography.

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Differential equations methods for the Monge-Kantorovich mass transfer problem

Reviews - Eigenfunction Expansions Associated with Second-Order Differential Equations. By E. C. Titchmarsh Pp. 175. 20s. 1946. (Oxford University)

Linear operations in Banach spaces Entropy numbers, s-numbers, and eigenvalues Unbounded linear operators Sesquilinear forms in Hilbert spaces Sobolev spaces Generalized Dirichlet and Neumann boundary-value problems Second-order differential operators on arbitrary open sets Capacity and compactness criteria Essential spectra Essential spectra of general second-order differential operators Global and asymptotic estimates for the eigen-values of - + q when q is real. Estimates for the singular values of - + q when 1 is complete Bibliography Notation index Subject index

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Spectral theory and differential operators

Hardy, Sobolev, and CLR inequalities.- Boundary curvatures and the distance function.- Hardy's inequality on domains.- Hardy, Sobolev, Maz'ya (HSM) inequalities.- Inequalities and operators involving magnetic elds.- The Rellich inequality.

The Analysis and Geometry of Hardy's Inequality

We present "reiteration theorems" with limiting values� = 0 and� = 1 for a real interpolation method involving broken-logarithmic functors. The resulting spaces lie outside of the original scale of spaces and to describe them new interpolation functors are introduced. For an ordered couple of (quasi-) Banach spaces similar results were presented without proofs by Doktorskii in (D).

Real Interpolation with Logarithmic Functors and Reiteration

Bethe and Salpeter introduced a relativistic equation — different from the Bethe-Salpeter equation — which describes relativistic multi-particle systems. Here we will begin some basic work concerning its mathematical structure. In particular we show self-adjointness of the one-particle operator which will be a consequence of a sharp Sobolev type inequality yielding semi-boundedness of the corresponding sesquilinear form. Moreover we locate the essential spectrum of the operator and show the absence of singular continuous spectrum.

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William Desmond Evans

Papers

Spectral theory and differential operators

The Analysis and Geometry of Hardy's Inequality

Real Interpolation with Logarithmic Functors and Reiteration

The spectrum of relativistic one-electron atoms according to Bethe and Salpeter

Sobolev Embeddings for Generalized Ridged Domains