Spectral theory for perturbed Krein Laplacians in nonsmooth domains (Q846985)

The aim of this paper is spectral properties of the Krein-von Neumann extension \(H_{K,\Omega}\) of the perturbed Laplacian \(-\Delta +V\) defined on \(C_0^\infty(\Omega)\), \(V\) is measurable, bounded and nonnegative in a bounded open set \(\Omega \subset\mathbb R^n\). A briefly definition of the Krein-von Neumann extension of appropriate \(L^2(\Omega;d^nx)\)-realizations of the differential operator \(\mathcal A\) of order \(2m,m\in\mathbb N\), is the following \[ {\mathcal A} = \sum_{0 \leq |\alpha| \leq 2m } a_\alpha (.) D^\alpha, \] \[ {\mathcal D}^\alpha = (-i\partial /\partial x_1)^{\alpha_1}\dots (-i\partial /\partial x_n)^{\alpha_n}, \quad \alpha=(\alpha_1,\dots,\alpha_n)\in\mathbb N_0^n, \] \[ a_\alpha (.) \in C^\infty(\overline{\Omega}), \quad C^\infty(\overline{\Omega}) = \bigcap_{k \in N_0} C^k(\overline{\Omega}), \] where \(\Omega \subset\mathbb R^n\) is a bounded \(C^\infty\) domain. The \(L^2(\Omega;d^nx)\)-realization \(A_{c,\Omega}\) of \({\mathcal A}\) is defined in the following way \[ A_{c,\Omega} u = {\mathcal A} u, \quad u\in \text{dom}(A_{c,\Omega}):= C_0^\infty(\Omega). \] If the coefficients \(a_\alpha\) are chosen such that \(A_{c,\Omega}\) is symmetric then holds \[ (u,A_{c,\Omega}v)_{L^2(\Omega;d^nx)} = (A_{c,\Omega}u,v)_{L^2(\Omega;d^nx}), \quad u,v \in C_0^\infty (\Omega). \] The main result of this paper is the following Weyl asymptotic formula \[ \#\{j \in N| \lambda_{K,\Omega,j} \leq \lambda \} = (2\pi)^{-n}v_n|\Omega|\lambda^{n/2}+ O(\lambda^{(n-(1/2))/2}) \quad \text{as } \lambda \to \infty, \] where \(v_n\) denotes the volume of the unit ball in \(\mathbb R^n\) and \(\lambda_{K,\Omega,j}\), \(j\in N\), are the eigenvalues of \(H_{K,\Omega}\). The basic idea of the proof is to use that the problem is spectrally equivalent to the buckling of a clamped plate problem. Furthermore, an abstract result of \textit{V. A. Kozlov}, Spectral Asymptotic Behavior, in [J. Sov. Math. 35, 2180--2193 (1986); translation from Probl. Mat. Anal. 9, 34--56 (1984; Zbl 0632.47014)] has been used. The paper contains more than 170 references and is an essential contribution.