We present a novel approach for bounding the resolvent of
for large energies. It is shown here that there exist a large integer  and a large number  so that relative to the
usual weighted -norm, 
for all . This requires suitable decay and smoothness
conditions on . The estimate (2) is trivial when , but difficult for large  since the gradient term exactly cancels the natural decay of the free resolvent. To obtain (2), we introduce a conical decomposition of the resolvent and then sum over...