Graphical Krein signature theory and Evans-Krein functions

DOI10.1137/120891423zbMATH Open1300.47078arXiv1209.3185OpenAlexW2111732273MaRDI QIDQ5408232FDOQ5408232

Authors: Richard Kollár, Peter D. Miller 

Publication date: 9 April 2014

Published in: SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Two concepts, very different in nature, have proved to be useful in analytical and numerical studies of spectral stability: (i) the Krein signature of an eigenvalue, a quantity usually defined in terms of the relative orientation of certain subspaces that is capable of detecting the structural instability of imaginary eigenvalues and hence their potential for moving into the right half-plane leading to dynamical instability under perturbation of the system, and (ii) the Evans function, an analytic function detecting the location of eigenvalues. One might expect these two concepts to be related, but unfortunately examples demonstrate that there is no way in general to deduce the Krein signature of an eigenvalue from the Evans function. The purpose of this paper is to recall and popularize a simple graphical interpretation of the Krein signature well-known in the spectral theory of polynomial operator pencils. This interpretation avoids altogether the need to view the Krein signature in terms of root subspaces and their relation to indefinite quadratic forms. To demonstrate the utility of this graphical interpretation of the Krein signature, we use it to define a simple generalization of the Evans function -- the Evans-Krein function -- that allows the calculation of Krein signatures in a way that is easy to incorporate into existing Evans function evaluation codes at virtually no additional computational cost. The graphical Krein signature also enables us to give elegant proofs of index theorems for linearized Hamiltonians in the finite dimensional setting: a general result implying as a corollary the generalized Vakhitov-Kolokolov criterion (or Grillakis-Shatah-Strauss criterion) and a count of real eigenvalues for linearized Hamiltonian systems in canonical form. These applications demonstrate how the simple graphical nature of the Krein signature may be easily exploited.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3185

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zbMATH Keywords

stabilityeigenvalueHamiltonian systemEvans functionoperator pencilKrein signatureindex theoremsgraphical Krein signature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors (15A18) Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Stability problems for infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems (37K45) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Matrix pencils (15A22) Numerical investigation of stability of solutions to ordinary differential equations (65L07) Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75) Nonlinear spectral theory, nonlinear eigenvalue problems (47J10)

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