Spectral analysis of selfadjoint elliptic differential operators, Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps, and abstract Weyl functions (Q887334)

The paper contains an abstract part and a more applied part. After an introductory section and after having some preliminaries on the concepts of quasi boundary triples, their \(\gamma\)-fields and their Weyl functions, as well as a discussion on a local simplicity property of symmetric operators, the paper enters in its core part where the authors describe the spectral properties of a given selfadjoint operator by means of a corresponding Weyl function. Then, in the more applied part, the authors derive how the spectrum of a selfadjoint second order elliptic differential operator on \(\mathbb{R}^n\) (with \(n\geq 2\)) can be described with the help of a Titchmarsh-Weyl function acting on an \((n -1)\)-dimensional compact interface \(\Sigma\) which splits \(\mathbb{R}^n\) into a bounded domain and an unbounded domain with common boundary \(\Sigma\).