We present a unified method to obtain unweighted and weighted estimates of linear and multilinear commutators with BMO functions, that is amenable to a plethora of operators and functional settings. Our approach elaborates on a commonly used Cauchy integral trick, recovering many known results but yielding also numerous new ones. In particular, we solve a problem about the boundedness of the commutators of the bilinear Hilbert transform with functions in BMO.

This paper provides a mathematical approach to study metasurfaces in nonflat geometries. Analytical conditions between the curvature of the surface and the set of refracted directions are introduced to guarantee the existence of phase discontinuities. The approach contains both the near and far field cases. A starting point is the formulation of a vector Snell's law in the presence of abrupt discontinuities on the interfaces.

We analyze bound states and other properties of solutions of a radial Schrödinger equation with a new screened Coulomb potential. In particular, we employ hypervirial relations to obtain eigen-energies for a Hydrogen atom with this potential. Additionally, we appeal to a sharp estimate for a modified Bessel function to estimate the ground state energy of such a system. Finally, when the angular quantum number ℓ ≠ 0, we obtain evidence for a critical screening parameter, above which bound states cease to exist.

We prove existence of propagators for a time dependent Schrödinger equation with a new class of softened Coulomb potentials, which we allow to be time dependent, in the context of time dependent density functional theory. We compute explicitly the Fourier transform of these new potentials, and provide an alternative proof for the Fourier transform of the Coulomb potential using distribution theory. Finally we show the new potentials are dilatation analytic, and so the spectrum of the corresponding Hamiltonian can be fully characterized.

No abstract