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We characterize geometric properties of Banach spaces in terms of boundedness of square functions associated to general Schrödinger operators of the form ℒ = -Δ + V, where the nonnegative potential V satisfies a reverse Hölder inequality. The main idea is to sharpen the well known localization method introduced by Z. Shen. Our results can be regarded as alternative proofs of the boundedness in H¹, $L^{p}$ and BMO of classical ℒ-square functions.