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Conditions are established for the existence of a scattering length and an effective range in the low-energy expansion of the S-wave phase-shift of a central potential in two and three dimensions. The behavior of the phase-shift as a function of the momentum is also derived for longer-range power-law potentials which do not fulfill these conditions., Comment: 19 pages, pdflatex, 3 figures, refs. added, typos corrected, to appear in JMP

For the energy of 14 TeV, to be reached at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), we have had for some time accurate predictions for both the real and imaginary parts of the forward proton-proton elastic scattering amplitude. LHC is now scheduled to start operating in two years, and it is timely to discuss some of the important consequences of the measurements of both the total cross-section and the ratio of the real to the imaginary part. We stress the importance of measuring the real part of the proton-proton forward scattering amplitude at LHC, because a deviation from existing theoretical predictions could be a strong sign for new physics., Comment: 4p, 2figs, Contribution to EDS2005, Blois May 2005

For a very large class of potentials, $V(\vec{x})$, $\vec{x}\in R^2$, we prove the universality of the low energy scattering amplitude, $f(\vec{k}', \vec{k})$. The result is $f=\sqrt{\frac{\pi}{2}}\{1/log k)+O(1/(log k)^2)$. The only exceptions occur if $V$ happens to have a zero energy bound state. Our new result includes as a special subclass the case of rotationally symmetric potentials, $V(|\vec{x}|)$., Comment: 65 pages, Latex, significant changes, new sections and appendices

In this paper we study the number of bound states for potentials in one and two spatial dimensions. We first show that in addition to the well-known fact that an arbitrarily weak attractive potential has a bound state, it is easy to construct examples where weak potentials have an infinite number of bound states. These examples have potentials which decrease at infinity faster than expected. Using somewhat stronger conditions, we derive explicit bounds on the number of bound states in one dimension, using known results for the three-dimensional zero angular momentum. A change of variables which allows us to go from the one-dimensional case to that of two dimensions results in a bound for the zero angular momentum case. Finally, we obtain a bound on the total number of bound states in two dimensions, first for the radial case and then, under stronger conditions, for the non-central case., Comment: Latex, 27pp no figures

We stress that in contradiction with what happens in space dimensions $n \geq 3$, there is no strict bound on the number of bound states with the same structure as the semi-classical estimate for large coupling constant and give, in two dimensions, examples of weak potentials with one or infinitely many bound states. We derive bounds for one and two dimensions which have the "right" coupling constant behaviour for large coupling., Comment: Talk given by A. Martin at Les Houches, October 2001, to appear in "Few-Body Problems"

We use inverse scattering methods, generalized for a specific class of complex potentials, to construct a one parameter family of complex potentials V(s, r) which have the property that the zero energy s-wave Jost function, as a function of s alone, is identical to Riemann's $\xi$ function whose zeros are the non-trivial zeros of the zeta function. These potentials have an asymptotic expansion in inverse powers of s(s-1) with real coefficients V_n(r) which are explicitly calculated. We show that the validity of the Riemann hypothesis depends essentially on simple integrability properties of the first order coefficient, V_1(r). In the case studied in this paper, this coefficient does not satisfy these conditions, but proof of that fact does indicate several possibilities for proceeding further., Comment: 107 pages, 1 figure, Latex

We prove that, in (2+1) dimensions, the S-wave phase shift, $ \delta_0(k)$, k being the c.m. momentum, vanishes as either $\delta_0 \to {c\over \ln (k/m)} or \delta_0 \to O(k^2)$ as $k\to 0$. The constant $c$ is universal and $c=\pi/2$. This result is established first in the framework of the Schr\"odinger equation for a large class of potentials, second for a massive field theory from proved analyticity and unitarity, and, finally, we look at perturbation theory in $\phi_3^4$ and study its relation to our non-perturbative result. The remarkable fact here is that in n-th order the perturbative amplitude diverges like $(\ln k)^n$ as $k\to 0$, while the full amplitude vanishes as $(\ln k)^{-1}$. We show how these two facts can be reconciled., Comment: 23 pages, Latex

We show that, even for a soft collision like forward elastic scattering, the phase of the amplitude is extremely sensitive to a breakdown of strict causality in local QFT. This is especially the case when the breakdown is manifested by a failure of polynomial boundedness which leads to amplitudes that in some complex direction have order 1 exponential growth in $|\sqrt{s}|$., Comment: 8 pages, including one postscript figure, latex with epsf.sty

In this paper we consider non-relativistic quantum mechanics on a space with an additional internal compact dimension, i.e. $R^3\otimes S^1$ instead of $R^3$. More specifically we study potential scattering for this case and the analyticity properties of the forward scattering amplitude, $T_{nn}(K)$, where $K^2$ is the total energy and the integer n denotes the internal excitation of the incoming particle. The surprising result is that the analyticity properties which are true in $R^3$ do not hold in $R^3\otimes S^1$. For example, $T_{nn}(K)$, is \underline{not} analytic in K for $ImK>0$, for n such that $(|n|/R)>\mu$, where R is the radius of $S^1$, and $\mu^{-1}$ is the exponential range of the potential, $V(r,\phi)=O(e^{-\mu r})$ for large r. We show by explicit counterexample that $T_{nn}(K)$ for $n\neq0$, can have singularities on the physical energy sheet. We also discuss the motivation for our work, and briefly the lesson it teaches us., Comment: LaTeX file, 23 pages, RU94-6-B