We use C *-algebra theory to provide a new method of decomposing the essential spectra of self-adjoint and non-self-adjoint Schrödinger operators in one or more space dimensions.

We establish a limiting absorption principle for some long range perturbations of the Dirac systems at threshold energies. We cover multi-center interactions with small coupling constants. The analysis is reduced to study a family of non-self-adjoint operators. The technique is based on a positive commutator theory for non self-adjoint operators, which we develop in appendix. We also discuss so...

We define a class of pseudo-ergodic non-self-adjoint Schrödinger operators acting in spaces l 2 (X) and prove some general theorems about their spectral properties. We then apply these to study the spectrum of a non-self-adjoint Anderson model acting on l 2 (Z), and find the precise condition for 0 to lie in the spectrum of the operator. We also introduce the notion of localized spectrum for su...