Absence of eigenvalues of non-self-adjoint Robin Laplacians on the half-space

Abstract

By developing the method of multipliers, we establish sufficient conditions which guarantee the total absence of eigenvalues of the Laplacian in the half-space, subject to variable complex Robin boundary conditions. As a further application of this technique, uniform resolvent estimates are derived under the same assumptions on the potential. Some of the results are new even in the self-adjoint setting, where we obtain quantum-mechanically natural conditions.

Minor corrections, references added, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society