Nonlocal boundary-value problems with a shift (Q1084583)

This first part of the paper deals with strongly elliptic differential- difference equations; it is an extract of an earlier paper [J. Differ. Equations 63, 332-361 (1986; Zbl 0598.35122)]. The second part applies the results of the first part to linear elliptic boundary value problems of second order. In a domain \(D=(0,d)\times G\subset {\mathbb{R}}^ n\) the following nonlocal boundary conditions are considered: \[ u(0,y)=\sum_{i<d}g_{1i}u(i,y),\quad u(d,y)=\sum_{i<d}g_{2i}u(d- i,y),\quad y\in G,\quad u=0\quad auf\quad D. \] The author obtains sufficient conditions on \(g_ 1,g_ 2\) for the existence and uniqueness of the solution. For \(g_ 1=g_ 2=g\) and certain conditions on g he shows that the spectrum of the corresponding operator is real.