On the Spectrum of Non-Selfadjoint Schrödinger Operators with Compact Resolvent

Abstract

We determine the Schatten class for the compact resolvent of Dirichlet realizations, in unbounded domains, of a class of non-selfadjoint differential operators. This class consists of operators that can be obtained via analytic dilation from a Schrödinger operator with magnetic field and a complex electric potential. As an application, we prove, in a variety of examples motivated by physics, that the system of generalized eigenfunctions associated with the operator is complete, or at least the existence of an infinite discrete spectrum.