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Controlled Born amplitude error
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice (The Axiom of Countable Choice ()). Adopt the hypotheses and notation of Stationary outgoing integral and flux: real bounded with , , , the compact operator , and write . Then:
(a) Neumann control. If then satisfies
(b) First Born amplitude. Under the same condition , with one has, uniformly in ,
(c) Scaling form. For with , put , , and define the corresponding amplitudes by the same integrals. Then This applies to every real in the original real stationary model. For complex the same Neumann construction and amplitude integrals give the same algebraic estimate, without asserting the real-potential flux conclusions. No base condition is needed in (c). These give controlled weak-coupling Born estimates in the actual operator norm, uniformly in both incident and outgoing directions.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: the generic bounded compact real , , , and with .
The precise kernel and amplitude normalization are Stationary outgoing integral and flux; the actual all- inverse is Outgoing Fredholm invertibility. The local CC finite-product kernel lemma is L^2 kernel operators are bounded and compact. The concrete norm calculation uses Tonelli's theorem for nonnegative measurable functions on a sigma-finite product, Polar coordinates decompose Lebesgue measure into r^{n-1} dr d sigma and Cauchy-Schwarz inequality for . Completeness and operator submultiplicativity are Hilbert space, A bounded linear operator between normed spaces and The operator norm as the least bound and as the unit-sphere or unit-ball supremum. Only their CC contracts are used.
Proof
The kernel lies in : polar integration of over gives . The actual local kernel lemma supplies finite-product approximants with operator-norm error bounded by their kernel- error; zero extension and restriction give a bounded compact on and finite . This is a concrete Euclidean CC construction, with no arbitrary Hilbert–Schmidt basis.
Suppose . Define . For , . Completeness defines the unique linear limit , with and . The finite geometric identity passes to the limit, so is the two-sided inverse. Consequently and , proving (a).
The amplitude difference is for . Cauchy–Schwarz gives uniformly in . The absolute integrability follows from the same estimate. Inserting step 2.1 proves (b). Since is independent of and , this is also uniform in . No radial specialization occurs.
Linearity of the kernel gives and . Repeat step 2.1 with this operator whenever , regardless of the base . The amplitude functional is and . Thus ; step 3.1 gives precisely both factors of in (c). The cases or follow from the same identities with zero error, without division by either. This proves the full claimed scaling and weak-coupling control.
Depends on
Cauchy-Schwarz inequality for
Tonelli's theorem for nonnegative measurable functions on a sigma-finite product
Polar coordinates decompose Lebesgue measure into r^{n-1} dr d sigma
Stationary outgoing integral and flux
Outgoing Fredholm invertibility
L^2 kernel operators are bounded and compact
The operator norm as the least bound and as the unit-sphere or unit-ball supremum
A bounded linear operator between normed spaces
Hilbert space
The Axiom of Countable Choice ()
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Sources
- R. Fitzpatrick, Quantum Mechanics (University of Texas at Austin, author-hosted course text), Born Approximation pp. 211-213 (first Born approximation and its validity condition)
- G. Teschl, Mathematical Methods in Quantum Mechanics, 1st edition 2009, Chapter 12 pp. 245-256 (Neumann series for the scattering amplitude)