The variational principle for the scattering phase

The variational principle for the scattering phase

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PHYSICS LETTERS

14 April 198C

THE VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE FOR THE SCATTERING PHASE a a

J. PlAN and C.S. SHARMA Department of Mathematics, Birkbeck College, London WCJE 7HX, England

a Received 3 January 1980

The proof of Kato’s lemma for Schwinger’s variational principle for the scattering phase is extended to a semi-bounded symmetric transformation on a complex Hubert space by using the new calculus on complex Banach spaces.

The new calculus on Banach spaces developed by Sharma and Rebelo [1] provides the foundations for a rigorous treatment of the calculus of variations in a complex Hilbert space (cf. refs. [2,3]). We use this calculus to refine and extend the result concerning Kato’s lemma proved earlier by Sharma and Rebelo [4] and we also give the correct sufficiency conditions (cf. ref. [5]). We first prove the following proposition: Proposition]. Let f be a function from a complex Banach space x to a complex Banach space y and let f be twice semi-differentiable on x. A sufficient condition for a stationary point u E x off to be minimum is that f2s(h,h)~clIhlI2 V/i Ex, for some c E R~. U

Proof The proof foilows directly from the next proposition. Proposition 2 (Taylor’s formula with remainder). Let f be as in proposition 1. Then there exists an r E R~such that for all h E x with Il/i II
Proof Letg: [0,1] -*ybedefinedbyg(t)=f(v th). Then g is semi-differentiable and g~(t)= g’(t) =f~÷rh(h). Hence

~ ‘

~

~

~v ~



where R’ -÷0as it/ill -÷0.The proof follows by cornputing (1) with the help of (2), one can then find an r E R~such that for Il/ill
where a E C and in order that a stationary value of the functional is minimum it is necessary that (hA/i) + c(h,fXf, h> ~s 0 (4) for some c E R and Vh E H. Furthermore a sufficient condition for the stationary value to be a minimum is that J(u)<~Jllf12 where ~iis the infimum of the spectrum ofA. Proof It is easily verified that F is an open set in H and that the functionalJ is semi-differentiable. Cornputing its first semi-derivative at v yields

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1

g(1)_g(0)__ff~5+~~(h).

From the definition of f~we have = ÷“~t/i~÷R’ 11th I

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(Au— ((u,Au)/(u,f))f, h)]

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((u,

~A/’~Bv,f)A)Bf,

that is

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At a stationary point u we must haveJ~= 0, that is

Au =((u,Au)/(u,f))f.

((u,Au)/(u,f))f= af.

A necessary condition forf(u)

ComputingJ~(h,h)gives 2~(h, h) = 2((u,fXf, u))—1 J~ X [(h,Ah) J(u)(h,f)(f, h)].

(h,h)4 —J(u)(Bh,f)A (f,Bh)A that is,

Au



The necessary condition for

u to be a minimum fol-

lows from proposition 2 by taking c = —J(u). Furthermore if i~is the infimum of the spectrum ofA, then J~S(h,h) ~ 2(Ku, f)(f, u)) [i~ J(u) If 112] 1/112 —

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The sufficient condition in the lemma then follows from proposition 1. This proof does not hold if A is unbounded, since in that case the functional J is not semi-differentiable, Let us consider first the case where A is a symmetric transformation such that (Au, u) ~ ~(u, u), r~E R~. Riesz and Nagy [6] have shown that DA, the domain ofA, can be completed to form a Hubert space with inner product )~defined by Ku, A)A = Ku, Au). Furthermore, the transformationB: H (DA ~‘A) defined by (f, h) = (f, Bh ~A with f E (DA, )A) and h E H is self-adjoint and has an inverse B which is an extension of the transformation A. Let fbe a fixed element ofDA. The sets F = fVEDA: (v,f) ~ 0} and F’ = fu E DA: KBu,f)A ~ 0} are identical and F’ is open in (DA >A)’ The functional J of lemma 1, viewed as a functional from F’ C (DA, ~A) to C

can be rewritten as

J(u)=Ku,v)A/(Bv,.f)A (f,Bu)A

to

be minimum is then

~‘

K/i, Ah) J(u)(h,fXf, h) ~ 0. A sufficient condition for J(u) to be a minimum then becomes

J(u) <(Bf, f)1 ~ r~/If 112 (where lf1I2 (f, f)). We have thus proved:

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Lemma 2. Let H be a Hubert space with inner product K ), let A be a semi-bounded positive symi-netric transformation and let f be a fixed element in DA , the domain of A. Let F = {u Eli: (v,f) ~ 0}. Let J: F C be as in lemma 1. Then the conclusions of lemma I about the stationary value off continue to be valid. ,

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The lemma will hold also for a semi-bounded symmetric transformation A such that (Au, u) > ~(u, u) where r~<0. This can be seen by considering A’ = A r~Iand viewing J as a functional from a subset of DA to C. We further remark that when A is bounded below all stationary points off satisfying the inequality (5) yield a minimum also in the original space H. References [lj CS. Sharma and I. Rebelo, Int. J. Theor. Phys. 13 (1975) 323.

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J is semi-differentiable. Computing its first and second semi-derivatives, we find that at a stationary point u

[2] G. Fonte, Nuovo Cimento 49B (1979) [31 S. Pian, submitted for publication.

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Rebelo, Phys. Lett. 44A (1973) 29.

[51 S.B.W. Mare, Phys. Lett. 53A (1975) 8. [61 F. Riesz and B.Sz. Nagy, Functional analysis (Ungar, New York, 1955).

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