General results on the eigenvalues of operators with gaps, arising from both ends of the gaps. Application to Dirac operators

DOI10.4171/JEMS/50zbMath1157.47306arXivmath/0510626MaRDI QIDQ2502552

Jean Dolbeault, Maria J. Esteban, Éric Séré

Publication date: 13 September 2006

Published in: Journal of the European Mathematical Society (JEMS) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0510626

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvalues; variational methods; self-adjoint operator; essential spectrum; spectral gaps; Dirac operator with a Coulomb-like potential; form domain; Rayleigh Ritz quotients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

47A10: Spectrum, resolvent

47A75: Eigenvalue problems for linear operators

47B25: Linear symmetric and selfadjoint operators (unbounded)

81Q10: Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis

65L60: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz, Galerkin and collocation methods for ordinary differential equations