The spectrum of the Hilbert space valued second derivative with general self-adjoint boundary conditions

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Abstract: We consider a large class of self-adjoint elliptic problem associated with the second derivative acting on a space of vector-valued functions. We present two different approaches to the study of the associated eigenvalues problems. The first, more general one allows to replace a secular equation (which is well-known in some special cases) by an abstract rank condition. The latter seems to apply particularly well to a specific boundary condition, sometimes dubbed "anti-Kirchhoff" in the literature, that arise in the theory of differential operators on graphs; it also permits to discuss interesting and more direct connections between the spectrum of the differential operator and some graph theoretical quantities. In either case our results yield, among other, some results on the symmetry of the spectrum.


This work is concerned with the spectral structure of the potential-less Laplace operator acting on a compact graph with either Kirchhoff and continuity conditions at interior vertices, or so called anti-Kirchhoff conditions, and suitable boundary conditions at terminal vertices. The authors show that the spectrum (eigenvalues along with their multiplicities) determine uniquely: the number of vertices of the graph; the number of components of the graph; the number of edges of the graph and numbers of bipartite and non-bipartite components.



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