On the dual boundary conditions and the nonnegative square root of the second derivative operator (Q1566842): Difference between revisions

The study of elastic systems with structural damping gives rise to differential equations of the form \[ {\partial^2u\over\partial t^2}+ Au+ rA^{1/2}{\partial u\over\partial t}= 0, \] where \(A\) is a nonnegative selfadjoint differential operator and \(A^{1/2}\) is the square root of \(A\). The author describes this square root for the case that \(A\) is the second derivative in \([0,2\pi]\) with boundary conditions such that it becomes a selfadjoint nonnegative operator in \(L_2(0, 2\pi)\). The square root is described by means of a certain singular integral operator the kernel of which may have singularities at the boundary and on the diagonal of \([0,2\pi]\times [0,2\pi]\). It turns out that \(A^{1/2}u\) is in some sense a harmonic conjugate of \(u'\), and it is calculated explicitly for different kinds of boundary conditions.