A Morse Index Theorem for Elliptic Operators on Bounded Domains

DOI10.1080/03605302.2015.1025979zbMATH Open1335.35166arXiv1404.5981OpenAlexW2118031748MaRDI QIDQ3448239FDOQ3448239

Jeremy L. Marzuola, Graham Cox, Christopher K. R. T. Jones

Publication date: 23 October 2015

Published in: Communications in Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Given a selfadjoint, elliptic operator $L$, one would like to know how the spectrum changes as the spatial domain $Omegasubsetmathbb{R}^d$ is deformed. For a family of domains ${Omeg{a}_t}_{tin[a,b]}$ we prove that the Morse index of $L$ on $Omeg{a}_a$ differs from the Morse index of $L$ on $Omeg{a}_b$ by the Maslov index of a path of Lagrangian subspaces on the boundary of $Omega$. This is particularly useful when $Omeg{a}_a$ is a domain for which the Morse index is known, e.g. a region with very small volume. Then the Maslov index computes the difference of Morse indices for the "original" problem (on $Omeg{a}_b$) and the "simplified" problem (on $Omeg{a}_a$). This generalizes previous multi-dimensional Morse index theorems that were only available on star-shaped domains or for Dirichlet boundary conditions. We also discuss how one can compute the Maslov index using crossing forms, and present some applications to the spectral theory of Dirichlet and Neumann boundary value problems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5981

zbMATH Keywords

Maslov indexMorse indexelliptic boundary value problemdomain deformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Oscillation, zeros of solutions, mean value theorems, etc. in context of PDEs (35B05) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Lagrangian submanifolds; Maslov index (53D12)

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