Spectral analysis of a fourth-order differential operator with periodic and antiperiodic boundary conditions (Q2817035)

The author investigates the spectral properties of a fourth-order differential operator under periodic or semiperiodic boundary conditions, using the method of similar operators. Some patterns of harmonic analysis are used to develop this method of similar operators. Second approximations of the eigenvalues are obtained, along with spectral projection estimates for the operator considered. An operator semigroup, whose generator is equal to the negative of the operator under study, is also constructed. Practical applications of the resulting techniques are not mentioned, but the results are important and are elegantly presented in a number of theorems and lemmas.