An explicit upper bound of the number of negative eigenvalues associated to an elliptic operator (Q496831)

Let \(L_0\) be a positive elliptic operator of order \(2m < n = \dim \mathbb{R}^n , m \in \mathbb{N},\) \[ L_0 u(x) = \sum_{|\alpha| \leq m,|\beta| \leq m} D^\alpha(a_{\alpha\beta}(x)D^\beta u(x)), \] where \(a_{\alpha\beta}\) are complex-valued measurable functions on a bounded set \(\Omega\), \(u \in C^\infty(\Omega)\). \textit{Y. V. Egorov} [Sémin. Équ. Dériv. Partielles, Éc. Polytech., Cent. Math., Palaiseau 1991--1992, No. 16, 11 p. (1992; Zbl 0850.35070)] showed that for a non-vanishing positive potential \(V\) an upper bound \(N\) for the number of negative eigenvalues of the operator \(L_0 - V \) is given by \[ N \leq C_{n,m,p} \int_\Omega [V(x)]^p |x-\xi_O|^{2mp-n} dx, \] \(C_{n,m,p}\) is a constant, \(\xi_O \in \Omega\) a fixed point and \(p \geq n/{2m}\). The aim of the paper is to give an upper bound for the number of negative eigenvalues for the case that \(L_0\) is an elliptic positive symmetric operator on a compact manifold with generalized Dirichlet boundary conditions. The proof is based on techniques used by Egorov [loc. cit.] and \textit{P. Li} and \textit{S.-T. Yau} [Commun. Math. Phys. 88, 309--318 (1983; Zbl 0554.35029)].