Consider an unstable quantum system that has been found undecayed at an instant s and denote by R(t,s) the rate of its regeneration into an original (undecayed) state at a later instant t+s. It is proved that the reduced evolution is a semigroup, i.e., there is no regeneration at all, provided R(t,s)1/2 can be estimated by a sufficiently regular function that is nondecreasing in s and has zero derivative with respect to t at t=0 for every s. This generalizes the theorem of Misra and Sinha [Helv. Phys. Acta 45, 619 (1972)] in a different direction than in a recent paper by Nishioka [J. Math. Phys. 29, 1860 (1988)].

We consider a Hamiltonian with N point interactions in {\bb R}^ d,\: d= 2, 3, all with the same coupling constant, placed at vertices of an equilateral polygon {\cal P} _N. It is shown that the ground-state energy is locally maximized by a regular polygon. The question whether the maximum is global is reduced to an interesting geometric problem.

We study singular Schrdinger operators with an attractive interaction supported by a closed smooth surface AR3 and analyze their behavior in the vicinity of the critical situation where such an operator has empty discrete spectrum and a threshold resonance. In particular, we show that if A is a sphere and the critical coupling is constant over it, any sufficiently small smooth area-preserving radial deformation gives rise to isolated eigenvalues. On the other hand, the discrete spectrum may be empty for general deformations. We also derive a related inequality for capacities associated with such surfaces.

We analyze bound states of Robin Laplacian in infinite planar domains with a smooth boundary, in particular, their relations to the geometry of the latter. The domains considered have locally straight boundary being, for instance, locally deformed halfplanes or wedges, or infinite strips, alternatively they are the exterior of a bounded obstacle. In the situation when the Robin condition is strongly attractive, we derive a two-term asymptotic formula in which the next-to-leading term is determined by the extremum of the boundary curvature. We also discuss the non-asymptotic case of attractive boundary interaction and show that the discrete spectrum is nonempty if the domain is a local deformation of a halfplane or a wedge of angle less than , and it is void if the domain is concave.

We consider Schrdinger operators in L2(R3) with a singular interaction supported by a finite curve . We present a proper definition of the operators and study their properties, in particular, we show that the discrete spectrum can be empty if is short enough. If it is not the case, we investigate properties of the eigenvalues in the situation when the curve has a hiatus of length 2. We derive an asymptotic expansion with the leading term which a multiple of ln.