Lower Spectral Branches of a Particle Coupled to a Bose Field

Abstract

The structure of the lower part (i.e. $\epsilon$-away below the two-boson threshold) spectrum of Fröhlich's polaron Hamiltonian in the weak coupling regime is obtained in spatial dimension $d\ge 3$. It contains a single polaron branch defined for total momentum $p\in G^{(0)}$, where $G^{(0)}\subset {\mathbb{R}}^d$ is a bounded domain, and, for any $p\in {\mathbb{R}}^d$, a manifold of polaron + one-boson states with boson momentum $q$ in a bounded domain depending on $p$. The polaron becomes unstable and dissolves into the one boson manifold at the boundary of $G^{(0)}$. The dispersion laws and generalized eigenfunctions are calculated.