  Consider the Schroeodinger equation: - Du(x) - l(x)u + s(x)u = 0, where D is
the Laplacian, l(x) > 0 and s(x) is dominated by l(x). We shall extend the
celebrated Kato's result on the asymptotic behavior of the solution to the case
where l(x) has unbounded discontinuity. The result will be used to establish
the limiting absorption principle for a class of reduced wave operators with
discontinuous coefficients.
