Indefinite boundary eigenvalue problems in a Pontrjagin space setting

compact self-adjoint operator eigenvalue problems Hamiltonian systems ordinary differential equations Pontryagin space uniformly convergent eigenfunction expansions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sturm-Liouville theory (34B24) Eigenfunctions, eigenfunction expansions, completeness of eigenfunctions of ordinary differential operators (34L10) Spaces with indefinite inner product (Kre?n spaces, Pontryagin spaces, etc.) (46C20) Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75) Linear operators defined by compactness properties (47B07) Linear operators on spaces with an indefinite metric (47B50) General theory of ordinary differential operators (47E05)

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We study eigenvalue problems \(Fy=\lambda Gy\) consisting of Hamiltonian systems of ordinary differential equations on a compact interval with symmetric \(\lambda\)-linear boundary conditions. The problems we are interested in are non-definite: neither left- nor right-definite. Instead of this, we give some weak condition on one coefficient of the Hamiltonian system which ensures that a Hermitian form associated with the operator \(F\) has at most finitely many negative squares. This enables us to study the problem by the help of a compact self-adjoint operator in a Pontryagin space and we obtain as a main result uniformly convergent eigenfunction expansions. In the final section, applications to formally self-adjoint differential equations of higher-order are given.

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