Spectral asymptotics of polynomial pencils of differential operators in bounded domains (Q1814347)

Let \(\Omega\) be a bounded domain with smooth boundary. The operator valued function \[ L(\lambda)=\sum_{|\alpha|+jm\leq km} a_{\alpha j}(x)\lambda^ j D^ \alpha \] acting in \(L^ 2(\Omega)\) is considered. All the coefficients are assumed to be smooth matrix valued functions in \(\overline\Omega\), \(a_{0,k}\equiv I\), \(D=(\partial/i\partial x_ 1,\dots,\partial/i\partial x_ n)\). Under some natural conditions it is stated that the spectrum of \(L(\lambda)\) is discrete. Moreover, an asymptotic formula for eigenvalues is derived.