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Contractivity Properties of Schrödinger Semigroups on Bounded Domains
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätstrasse 150 4630 Bochum 1, Germany
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Udine via Zanon 6, 33100 Udine, Italy
Received 4 January 1994. Revision received 19 May 1994.
We study intrinsic ultracontractivity (IUC) for the Schrödinger operator H = –
+ V with Dirichlet boundary conditions on bounded domains
in Rn. The potential is not assumed either to belong to the Kato class, or to be relatively form-bounded with respect to the Dirichlet Laplacian on
. The class of domains considered includes John domains and a class of Hölder domains. We also give an example of a bounded domain
on which the Dirichlet Laplacian is not IUC, but on which –
+ V is IUC for a suitable potential V.