Two-sided Lieb-Thirring bounds

Abstract

We prove upper and lower bounds for the number of eigenvalues of semi-bounded Schrödinger operators in all spatial dimensions. As a corollary, we obtain two-sided estimates for the sum of the negative eigenvalues of atomic Hamiltonians with Kato potentials. Instead of being in terms of the potential itself, as in the usual Lieb-Thirring result, the bounds are in terms of the landscape function, also known as the torsion function, which is a solution of $(-\hat{I}”+V+M)u_M=1$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^d$; here $M\in \mathbb{R}$ is chosen so that the operator is positive. We further prove that the infimum of $(u_M^{-1}-M)$ is a lower bound for the ground state energy $E_0$ and derive a simple iteration scheme converging to $E_0$.

31 pages. Comments are welcome!