Spectral estimates for the Schrödinger operators with sparse potentials on graphs

Abstract

The construction of "sparse potentials", suggested in \cite{RS09} for the lattice ${\mathbb{Z}}^d,d>2$, is extended to a wide class of combinatorial and metric graphs whose global dimension is a number $D>2$. For the Schrödinger operator $-\D-\a V$ on such graphs, with a sparse potential $V$, we study the behavior (as $\a\to\infty$) of the number $N_-(-\D-\a V)$ of negative eigenvalues of $-\D-\a V$. We show that by means of sparse potentials one can realize any prescribed asymptotic behavior of $N_-(-\D-\a V)$ under very mild regularity assumptions. A similar construction works also for the lattice ${\mathbb{Z}}^2$, where D=2.