Fredholm property of boundary value problems for a fourth-order elliptic differential-operator equation with operator boundary conditions (Q2251854)

The authors study the Fredholm property of a boundary value problem for a fourth-order differential-operator equation of elliptic type in a Hilbert space \(H,\) with unbounded operators in the boundary conditions. Sufficient conditions are found for the operators in the boundary conditions which ensure Fredholmness of the problem considered. Moreover, applications of the abstract results are given to boundary value problems for fourth-order elliptic partial differential equations in nonsmooth domains.