Semiclassical spectral analysis of the Bochner–Schrödinger operator on symplectic manifolds of bounded geometry

Abstract

We study the Bochner–Schrödinger operator \(H_{p}=\frac{1}{p}\varDelta ^{L^p\otimes E}+V\) on high tensor powers of a positive line bundle L on a symplectic manifold of bounded geometry. First, we give a rough asymptotic description of its spectrum in terms of the spectra of the model operators. This allows us to prove the existence of gaps in the spectrum under some conditions on the curvature of the line bundle. Then we consider the spectral projection of such an operator corresponding to an interval whose extreme points are not in the spectrum and study asymptotic behavior of its kernel. First, we establish the off-diagonal exponential estimate. Then we state a complete asymptotic expansion in a fixed neighborhood of the diagonal.