Remarks on spectra of operator rot (Q1122761)

Spectral properties of the operator rot have been studied in various function spaces of vector fields on a three dimensional domain. A self- adjoint operator associated with rot has been introduced by choosing appropriate boundary conditions. Eigenfunctions of the self-adjoint rot operator span the orthogonal complement of the irrotational fields in the Lebesgue space \(L^ 2(\Omega)\) of square integrable vector fields. Eigenvalue problems for rot have been also discussed under different boundary conditions.