Fredholm determinants, Evans functions and Maslov indices for partial differential equations

DOI10.1007/S00208-023-02696-6MaRDI QIDQ6402204zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Graham Cox, Yuri Latushkin, Alim Sukhtayev

Publication date 15 June 2022

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00208-023-02696-6

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05)

Abstract: The Evans function is a well known tool for locating spectra of differential operators in one spatial dimension. In this paper we construct a multidimensional analogue as the modified Fredholm determinant of a ratio of Dirichlet-to-Robin operators on the boundary. This gives a tool for studying the eigenvalue counting functions of second-order elliptic operators that need not be self-adjoint. To do this we use local representation theory for meromorphic operator-valued pencils, and relate the algebraic multiplicities of eigenvalues of elliptic operators to those of the Robin-to-Robin and Robin-to-Dirichlet operator pencils. In the self-adjoint case we relate our construction to the Maslov index, another well known tool in the spectral theory of differential operators. This gives new insight into the Maslov index and allows us to obtain crucial monotonicity results by complex analytic methods.

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