Spectral results for perturbed variational eigenvalue problems and their applications to compressed PDEs (Q275114)

This paper deals with the study of a modification of the Courant minimax characterization of the Dirichlet eigenfunctions of second order linear symmetric elliptic operators in a bounded domain of the Euclidean space. In the first part of the present paper, the authors are concerned with the theory of completeness for the solutions of perturbed Courant-Fisher variational problem for arbitrary linear operators defined on a Hilbert space. This is done under linear and superlinear growth conditions on the eigenvalues of the original operator. In the case of lack of completeness, it is proved an estimation of the deviation from the true solutions. These abstract results are applied to establish completeness results for compressed plane waves and compressed modes, which are the solutions to analogous variational problems with perturbations.