Ellipticity on manifolds with edges and boundary (Q2581040)

The authors study elliptic pseudo-differential operators on manifolds with edge singularities. These are manifolds with singularities that are locally the product of a conical singularity and a smooth factor. Motivated from results in [\textit{L. Boutet de Monvel}, Acta Math. 126, 11--51 (1971; Zbl 0206.39401), \textit{D. Kapanadze} and \textit{B.-W. Schulze}, Crack theory and edge singularities, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers (2003; Zbl 1053.58010), \textit{E. Schrohe} and \textit{B.-W. Schulze}, in: Demuth, Michael (ed.) et al., Differential equations, asymptotic analysis, and mathematical physics. Papers associated with the international conference on partial differential equations, Potsdam, Germany, June 29--July 2, 1996. Akademie Verlag: Akademie Verlag. Math. Res. 100, 292--324 (1997; Zbl 0882.35144)], it is interesting to single out special elliptic operators, called reductions of order. These elliptic operators induce isomorphisms \[ R:H^s(X)\to H^{s-\mu}(X) \] between the Sobolev spaces in the interior. Such reductions of order are already well-understood for manifolds with smooth boundary. The goal of the article under review is to extend these techniques to manifolds with edges, with a concentration on operators with the minus property at the boundary. The minus property means by definition, that the localisation of the operator near the boundary admits an analytic extension in the normal covariable to the upper complex half-plane. The minus symbol from [\textit{G. Grubb}, Commun. Partial Differ. Equations 15, No.~3, 289--340 (1990; Zbl 0723.35091)] is used to construct various quantisations, in particular for Mellin quantisation.