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In this paper we prove several results for the scattering phase (spectral shift function) related with perturbations of the electromagnetic field for the Dirac operator in the Euclidean space.
Many accurate results are now available for perturbations of the Schrödinger operator, in the high energy regime or in the semi-classical regime. Here we extend these results to the Dirac operator. There are several technical problems to overcome because the Dirac operator is a system, its symbol is a 4×4 matrix, and its continuous spectrum has positive and negative values. We show that we can separate positive and negative energies to prove high energy asymptotic expansion and we construct a semi-classical Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation in the semi-classical case. We also prove an asymptotic expansion for the scattering phase when the speed of light tends to infinity (non-relativistic limit).
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Bruneau, V., Robert, D. Asymptotics of the scattering phase for the Dirac operator: High energy, semi-classical and non-relativistic limits. Ark. Mat. 37, 1–32 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02384826
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