Speaker: 

Prof. Mihai Stoiciu

Institution: 

Caltech

Time: 

Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 2:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

For the Schrödinger operator $-\Delta + V$ on $L^2 (\mathbb{R}^n)$, let $N(V)$ be the number of bound states. We will review a few classical bounds for $N(V)$: Birman-Schwinger, Cwikel-Lieb-Rosenbljum, Birman-Solomjak. We will then present new bounds for $N(V)$ in dimension two. This work was motivated by a conjecture of Khuri, Martin and Wu.