# R. Nichols

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Articles: 4

### Weak and vague convergence of spectral shift functions of one-dimensional Schrödinger operators with coupled boundary conditions

Methods Funct. Anal. Topology 23 (2017), no. 4, 378-403

We prove weak and vague convergence results for spectral shift functions associated with self-adjoint one-dimensional Schrödinger operators on intervals of the form $(-\ell,\ell)$ to the full-line spectral shift function in the limit $\ell\to \infty$ for a class of coupled boundary conditions. The boundary conditions considered here include periodic boundary conditions as a special case.

### Some applications of almost analytic extensions to operator bounds in trace ideals

Methods Funct. Anal. Topology 21 (2015), no. 2, 151–169

Using the Davies-Helffer-Sjostrand functional calculus based on almost analytic extensions, we address the following problem: Given a self-adjoint operator $S$ in $\mathcal H$, and functions $f$ in an appropriate class, for instance, $f \in C_0^{\infty}(\mathbb R)$, how to control the norm $\|f(S)\|_{\mathcal B(\mathcal H)}$ in terms of the norm of the resolvent of $S$, $\|(S - z_0 I_{\mathcal H})^{-1}\|_{\mathcal B(\mathcal H)}$, for some $z_0 \in \mathbb C\backslash\mathbb R$. We are particularly interested in the case where $\mathcal B(\mathcal H)$ is replaced by a trace ideal, $\mathcal B_p(\mathcal H)$, $p \in [1,\infty)$.

### Erratum: F. Gesztesy, S. Hofmann, and R. Nichols, MFAT 19 (2013), no.3, 227-259

Methods Funct. Anal. Topology 21 (2015), no. 1, 99-99

### On square root domains for non-self-adjoint Sturm-Liouville operators

Methods Funct. Anal. Topology 19 (2013), no. 3, 227-259

We determine square root domains for non-self-adjoint Sturm-Liouville operators of the type $$L_{p,q,r,s} = - \frac{d}{dx}p\frac{d}{dx}+r\frac{d}{dx}-\frac{d}{dx}s+q$$ in $L^2((c,d);dx)$, where either $(c,d)$ coincides with the real line $\mathbb R$, the half-line $(a,\infty)$, $a \in \mathbb R$, or with the bounded interval $(a,b) \subset \mathbb R$, under very general conditions on the coefficients $q, r, s$. We treat Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions at $a$ in the half-line case, and Dirichlet and/or Neumann boundary conditions at $a,b$ in the final interval context. (In the particular case $p=1$ a.e. on $(a,b)$, we treat all separated boundary conditions at $a, b$.)