We consider a Schrdinger particle on a graph consisting of <i>N</i> links joined at a single point. Each link supports a real locally integrable potential <i>V</i> _<i>j</i>; the self-adjointness is ensured by the type boundary condition at the vertex. If all the links are semi-infinite and ideally coupled, the potential decays as <i>x</i> ¹ along each of them, is nonrepulsive in the mean and weak enough, the corresponding Schrdinger operator has a single negative eigenvalue; we find its asymptotic behavior. We also derive a bound on the number of bound states and explain how the coupling constant may be interpreted in terms of a family of squeezed potentials.

We investigate a charged two-dimensional particle in a homogeneous magnetic field interacting with a periodic array of point obstacles. We show that while Landau levels remain to be infinitely degenerate eigenvalues, between them the system has bands of absolutely continuous spectrum and exhibits thus a transport along the array. We also compute the band functions and the corresponding probability current.

In this paper, we attempt to reconstruct one of the last and incomplete projects of Volodya Geyler. We study the motion of a quantum particle in the plane to which a halfline lead is attached, assuming that the particle has spin and the plane component of the Hamiltonian contains a spin-orbit interaction, of Rashba or Dresselhaus type. We construct a class of admissible Hamiltonians and derive an explicit expression for the Green function, which is applied to scattering in a system of this kind.

The initial decay rate of a mixed state is discussed; is shown to be zero for finite energy states. In the previous paper [1] we investigated a general scheme for description of unstable systems. One of our results concerned the initial decay rate. Generalizing the earlier results of Horwitz and Marchand (see [2] and other references contained in [1]) we proved there, that the initial decay rate of any pure state of the unstable system equals to zero, if this state is so called finite energy state. Here we shall be interested in the same problem, assuming now the state of the decaying system to be in general mixed. Such assumption seems to be reasonable: firstly, from the point of view of an experiment it is too restrictive to treat only pure states of unstable systems. In particular, mixed states are generally considered in the recent studies about the influence of measuring devices on the time evolution of the unstable system [3

The notion of generating topologies, introduced by Stephani El0], is useful for studying the injective hull of an operator ideal. Using Randtke's idea (see [8, p. 90] or [12,(3.2. 1) and (3.2. 7)]), we can characterize generating topologies in terms of seminorms which satisfy some expected properties (see Lemma 3.3 and Theorems 3.4 and 3.9). By a well-known and useful idea of Grothendieck, the dual notions of generating topologies and ideal-topologies, the so-called generating bornologies, are given and studied in Sect. 4. In term of ideal-bornologies, the surjective hull of an operator ideal on Banach spaces is given (see Lemma 4.8 and Theorem 4.10). In terms of these two dual concepts, we are able to classify locally convex spaces, and to study their dual results. For instance, we show that if 9.1 is a symmetric (resp. completely symmetric) operator ideal on Banach spaces then a Banach space E is an 9~-topological