Limiting absorption principle for the magnetic Dirichlet Laplacian in a half-plane

Abstract

ABSTRACTWe consider the Dirichlet Laplacian in the half-plane with a constant magnetic field. Due to the translational invariance, this operator admits a fiber decomposition and a family of dispersion curves that are real analytic functions. Each of them is simple and monotonically decreasing from positive infinity to a finite value, which is the corresponding Landau level. These finite limits are thresholds in the purely absolutely continuous spectrum of the magnetic Laplacian. We prove a limiting absorption principle for this operator, both outside and at the thresholds. Finally, we establish analytic and decay properties for functions lying in the absorption spaces. We point out that the analysis carried out in this article is rather general, and can be adapted to a wide class of fibered magnetic Laplacians with thresholds in their spectrum that are finite limits of their band functions.