A spectral shift function for Schrödinger operators with singular interactions

Abstract: For the pair ${-\Delta, -\Delta-\alpha\delta_\mathcal{C}}$ of self-adjoint Schr\"{o}dinger operators in $L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)$ a spectral shift function is determined in an explicit form with the help of (energy parameter dependent) Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps. Here $\delta_{\cal{C}}$ denotes a singular $\delta$-potential which is supported on a smooth compact hypersurface $\mathcal{C}\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ and $\alpha$ is a real-valued function on $\mathcal{C}$.