Engineering SSF with singularities for self-adjoint operators on the lattice

Abstract: We analyze the properties of the spectral shift function (SSF) for some dispersive self-adjoint operators under suitable compact perturbations. New mechanisms allowing the SSF to have singularities at the thresholds are exhibited, based on the degeneracy of the spectrum of the unperturbed operator. In particular, we show how any desired type of singularities can be engineered in this situation. These results are completed by Levinson type results.