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Estimate for the operator $A A_D^{-1}$

Let $O\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ be a bounded domain of the class $C^{1,1}$ (or $C^2$ for simplicity). Let the operator $A_D$ be formally given by the differential expression $A=-\mathrm{div}g(x)\nabla$ ...
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Dependence of Neumann eigenvalues on the domain

I have the following problem in hands, in the context of a broader investigation: Let $V\in L^{n/2}$ compactly supported, where $n\geq 3$ is the dimension. I want to prove the following: For any $\...
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Convergence of spectrum

Let $M$ be a compact manifold and $g_k$ be a sequence of Riemannain metrics smoothly converging to another Riemannian metric $g$. Let $\{\lambda^k_j\}$ be the spectrum of the Laplacian of the ...
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Applications of finite speed of propagation property

Consider the Laplace operator $\Delta:=\sum_{j=1}^{n}\partial_{x_{j}}^{2}$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$. Let $E_{\lambda}$ be the spectral resolution of $\Delta$, and $$ H_{t}[f]:=\cos{(t\sqrt{-\Delta})}f=\int_{...
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Lp eigenfuntion bounds for the hermite operator on domain (or manifolds) with boundary

Let's define the harmonic oscillator $H = -\Delta+x^2$ in a domain $\Omega$ of $\mathbb R^d$. Thus, we consider the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem $$ (H - \lambda^2)u (x) = 0, \ x \in \Omega ; \ \text{...
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On the spectrum of Fokker–Planck with linear drift

The paper by Liberzon and Brockett, "Spectral analysis of Fokker–Planck and related operators arising from linear stochastic differential equations." SIAM Journal on Control and ...
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On a compact operator in the plane

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^2$ be a bounded domain with a smooth boundary. Let $$\bar{\partial}= \frac{1}{2} ( \partial_{x^1} + i \,\partial_{x^2}),$$ and let $G: L^2(\Omega)\to H^2(\Omega)$ be the ...
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On spectral representation of solutions to wave equations with impulse initial data

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^n$ be a bounded domain with a smooth boundary that contains the origin. Let us consider the following classical linear wave equation $$ \begin{cases} \partial^2_t u -\...
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On Dirichlet eigenfunctions of a domain

Given any bounded domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n$, $n\geq 2$, with a Lipschitz boundary, let $\{(\lambda_k,\phi_k)\}_{k\in \mathbb N}$ be the Dirichlet eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of $-\Delta$ ...
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Existence of a domain with simple Dirichlet eigenvalues

Let $g$ be a smooth Riemannian metric on $\mathbb R^3$ that coincides with the Euclidean metric outside a compact set $K$. Does there exist some domain $\Omega$ with smooth boundary such that $K \...
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Eigenvalues of Schrödinger operator with Robin condition on the boundary

Let $(M^2,g)$ be a compact Riemannian surface with boundary and let $L = \Delta_g + q$ be a Schrödinger operator, where $\Delta_g = -\operatorname{div} \nabla$ is the Laplacian with respect to the ...
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Orthogonality to a one parameter family of eigenfunctions

Let $\rho>0$ be a smooth realvalued function such that $\rho=1$ outside the unit interval $(-1,1)$. For each $t>0$, let us denote by $\{\lambda_n(t)\}_{n=1}^{\infty}$ and $\{\phi_n(t;x)\}_{n=1}^{...
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A mapping property for fractional Laplace--Beltrami operator

Suppose that $g$ is a smooth Riemannian metric on $\mathbb R^3$ that is equal to the Euclidean metric outside the unit ball. Let us define the fractional Laplace--Beltarmi operator on $\mathbb R^3$ of ...
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Existence of eigen basis for elliptic operator on compact manifold

Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold. Let $E$ be a vector bundle over $M$ equipped with a Hermitian (or Euclidean) metric on its fibers. Let $D$ be a linear elliptic differential operator acting ...
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Is the $n/2$-th heat kernel coefficient topological?

I have asked the same question on math.SE, without much success so I'm trying my luck here too. Let $M$ be an $n$-dimensional manifold, with $n$ even and consider the heat kernel of the Laplacian on $...
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Domains with discrete Laplace spectrum

Let $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a domain. Assume that the Laplacian $-\Delta=-(\partial^2/\partial x_1^2+\cdots+\partial^2/\partial x_n^2)$ has a discrete spectrum on $L^2(\Omega)$ (i.e., we are ...
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On Fredholm alternative for Neumann conditions

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded Lipschitz domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and $f \in L^2(\Omega)$. It is well known that if $\lambda$ is a Dirichlet Laplacian eigenvalue, then the equation $$\begin{cases} -\Delta ...
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Counterexamples to weak dispersion for the Schrödinger group

Let $A$ be a selfadjoint operator on some Hilbert space $H$, let $U(t)=e^{itA}$ be the corresponding continuous group, and let $f\in H$ be orthogonal to all eigenvectors of $A$. Are there examples ...
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Regularity of eigenfunctions of a self-adjoint differential operator in Gilbarg-Trudinger

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded smooth domain, $Lu = D_i \left( a^{ij} (x) D_ju \right)$, and two constants $\lambda, \Lambda > 0$. Suppose the coefficient $a$ is measurable, symmetric, and satisfies $$ ...
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Spectral problems with the wrong sign on the Poincaré disk

Let $\mathbb{D}$ denote the open unit disk in $\mathbb{C}$ equipped with the Poincaré metric $g$ of negative scalar curvature $-1$. Denote by $\Delta_g = \mathrm{Tr}_g(\nabla^g d) = - d^{\ast_g} d$ ...
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Kernel for an equation involving the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator

Consider the following PDE on $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ for $n\geq 2:$ \begin{align} \Delta u - x\cdot \nabla u &= f(x),\text{ in } \Omega\\ u&=0 \text{ on }\partial \Omega \end{align} Are ...
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Existence of an eigenpair for d-bar operator in the unit disck

Let $\overline{\partial}=\frac{1}{2}(\partial_{x}+\textrm{i} \,\partial_y)$ and let $D$ be the unit disc in the complex plane. For each $\lambda \in \mathbb C$, consider the problem: $$ \overline{\...
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Applications and motivations of resolvent for elliptic operator

Let $ A(x)=(a_{ij}(x)):\mathbb{R}^d\to\mathbb{R}^{d\times d} $ be a matrix satisfying ellipticity condition, that is \begin{align} \mu^{-1}|\xi|^2\geq \sum_{i,j=1}^da_{ij}(x)\xi_i\xi_j\geq\mu|\xi|^2 \...
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Spectral theory of infinite volume hyperbolic manifolds

I have a question about the discrete spectrum of the Laplace operator on hyperbolic manifolds with infinite volume. I understand the case of infinite area surfaces: see Chapter 7 (Sections 1 and 2) of ...
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Fokker-Planck: equivalence between linear spectral gap and nonlinear displacement convexity?

In a smooth, bounded and convex domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^d$ consider the usual linear Fokker-Planck equation with Neumann (some would say Robin) boundary conditions \begin{equation} \label{FP} \...
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On the convergence of the spectral decomposition of a harmonic function

Let $(M,g)$ be a smooth compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $n\geq 2$ with a smooth boundary. Denote by $0<\lambda_1\leq \lambda_2\leq\ldots$ the Dirichlet eigenvalues of $-\Delta_g$ on $(M,g)$...
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Proving an eigenvalue bound without resorting to Weyl's law

Suppose $(M,g)$ is a smooth compact Riemannian manifold of dimension $n\geq 2$ with smooth boundary and denote by $\{\phi_k,\lambda_k\}_{k\in \mathbb N}$ its Dirihclet spectral decomposition for the ...
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Weyl's law and eigenfunction bounds for weighted Laplace-Beltrami operator

I would appreciate any answers or even references for the following problem. Let $(M,g)$ be a complete smooth Riemannian manifold with an asymptotically Euclidean metric (let's even say that the ...
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Adjoint operator of OU generator

The generator an OU process is given by $$A = \operatorname{tr}(QD^2)+\langle Bx,D\rangle.$$ This one possesses an invariant measure given by $$d\mu(x) = b(x) \ dx \text{ with } b(x) = \frac{1}{(4\pi)^...
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Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of non-symmetric elliptic operators

We know that the operator $A=\Delta$ with domain $D(A)=\{u\in W^{2, 2}(\Omega): u=0 \ \ \text{on } \partial\Omega\}$ (say $\Omega$ is a bounded nice domain) has eigenvalues $\lambda_1>\lambda_2\ge \...
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Eigenvalues of an elliptic operator on shrinking domains

This was probably done somewhere 100 times, but I can't find a reference. Assume that we have a bounded star-shaped domain $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ with piece-wise smooth boundary and a general ...
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Reference request for spectral theory of elliptic operators [closed]

I want to learn the spectral theory of linear elliptic operators in bounded and unbounded domains in $R^n$, in particular for Laplacian and Schrodinger operators. Please suggest me some reference. I ...
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Hessian estimates of eigenfunctions without Bochner

let $\Omega$ be a bounded domain in a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$. Consider the Dirichlet eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of Laplacian on $\Omega$, that are, the $\lambda_i>0$ and $\phi_i\in H^{1}_0(...
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Existence and uniqueness for $\Delta f + \lambda f = g$ on $S^2$ for $\lambda>0$ [closed]

Consider the PDE $$\Delta f + \lambda f = g$$ on $S^2$, where $\Delta$ is with respect to the round metric, $g \in L^2(S^2)$ and $\lambda>0$. I wish to study the existence and uniqueness of this ...
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Spectrum Cauchy-Euler operator

A Cauchy-Euler operator is an operator that leaves homogeneous polynomial of a certain degree invariant, named after the Cauchy-Euler differential equations We consider the operator $$(Lf)(x) = \...
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Compactness for initial-to-final map for heat equation

Let $M$ be a compact smooth manifold without boundary. Let $T>0$ and let $g$ be a smooth Riemannian metric on $M$. Given any $f \in L^2(M)$ let $u$ be the unique solution to the equation $$\...
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On the Schrödinger equation and the eigenvalue problem

Li-Yau 1983_Article The second part of above paper used the discrete eigenvalues of $\frac{-\Delta}{q}$ where $q>0$ to proof the the number of non-positive eigenvalues of Schrödinger operator $-\...
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Spectrum of a Lax Pair and conservation laws of a PDE

I would like to ask a question that I had asked a few days ago on the site math.stackexchange and I still have not received an answer. If we have a Lax operator, we know that the spectrum of this ...
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Spectrum of matrix involving quantum harmonic oscillator

The quantum harmonic oscillator relies on two classical objects, the so-called creation and annihilation operator $$a ^* = x- \partial_x \text{ and }a = x+\partial_x.$$ Fix two numbers $\alpha,\beta \...
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uniform convergence of $H^r$ projectors on compact sets?

Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^d$ be a smooth, bounded domain. Let $(e_n)_{n\geq 0}\subset L^2(\Omega)$ be the Hilbert basis generated by the Dirichlet-Laplacian eigenfunctions, i-e $-\Delta e_n=\...
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Counting number of distinct eigenvalues

Let $\Omega$ be a Lipschitz domain in $\mathbb{R}^n$, and let $N(\lambda)$ be the number of Dirichlet Laplacian eigenvalues less than or equal to $\lambda$. The famous Weyl's law says that as $\...
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Finiteness of Schatten $p$-norm of truncated free resolvent

Consider the resolvent operator $ R(z) := (-\Delta - z)^{-1}$ of the Laplace operator on $L^2(\mathbb R^d)$, where $z\in \rho(-\Delta) = \mathbb C \setminus \mathopen [0, \infty)$. For $p \geq 1$, let ...
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Gap between consecutive Dirichlet eigenvalues

Suppose $\Omega \subset \mathbb R^2$ is a domain with a Lipschitz boundary and let $\{\lambda_k\}_{k=0}^n$ be the eigenvalues for the Laplacian operator on $\Omega$, that is to say $$ -\Delta \phi_k = ...
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Fourier transform without characters (Eigenfunctions of an operator)

Let's consider a very simple problem in quantum mechanics: We have, in $\mathbb R,$ a potential barrier of the form $$ V(x) = V_0 \mathbf 1_{[-a,a]}(x), $$ where $\mathbf 1_{[-a,a]}$ denotes the ...
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Convergence of discrete Laplacian to continuous one

I make the following observation: Let $\Delta^{(n)}$ be the discrete Laplacian on $\mathbb{C}^n$ (ie the $n\times n $ matrix with diagonal $-2$ and upper/lower diagonal $1$.) This one has eigenvalues ...
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Spectral gaps and convergence of solutions

I'm reading the following paper by C. Villani on the Fokker-Planck equation $$u_t = Lu$$ with $L = \Delta - \nabla V\cdot \nabla$ in which he states (pg. 3) that the existence of a spectral gap for ...
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How to prove that there are infinitely many eigenvalues below $1$ of the following differential operator?

The question from Remark (2) below Lemma 7 in Enno Lenzmann: uniqueness of ground states for the pseudorelativistic Hartree equations. Let $l \ge 1$, and consider the following operator \begin{...
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Heat equation damps backward heat equation?

In a previous question on mathoverflow, I was wondering about the following: Let $\Delta$ be the Laplacian on some compact interval $I$ of the real line with let's say Dirichlet boundary conditions. ...
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Mapping properties of backward and forward heat equation

In a previous question on mathoverflow, I asked about the following: Let $\Delta$ be the Laplacian on some compact interval $I$ of the real line with let's say Dirichlet boundary conditions. The ...
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Strongly continuous semigroups on weighted $\ell^1$ space

Let $x=(x_i)$ be a sequence in $\ell^1$ such that all $x_i>0.$ Let $T(t):\ell^1 \rightarrow \ell^1$ be a strongly continuous semigroup of, i.e. $t \mapsto T(t)y$ is continuous for every $y \in \ell^...
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