Spectral gaps for self-adjoint second order operators

DOI10.4171/ZAA/1470zbMATH Open1275.47098arXiv1010.0314OpenAlexW2096836674WikidataQ59311983 ScholiaQ59311983MaRDI QIDQ692846FDOQ692846

Authors: Ivan Veselić, Denis Borisov 

Publication date: 6 December 2012

Published in: Zeitschrift für Analysis und ihre Anwendungen (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a second order self-adjoint operator in a domain which can be bounded or unbounded. The boundary is partitioned into two parts with Dirichlet boundary condition on one of them, and Neumann condition on the other. We assume that the potential part of this operator is non-negative. We add a localized perturbation assuming that it produces two negative isolated eigenvalues being the two lowest spectral values of the resulting perturbed operator. The main result is a lower bound on the gap between these two eigenvalues. It is given explicitly in terms of the geometric properties of the domain and the coefficients of the perturbed operator. We apply this estimate to several asymptotic regimes studying its dependence on various parameters. We discuss specific examples of operators to which the bounds can be applied.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.0314

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zbMATH Keywords

spectral gaplower estimateDirichlet (Neumann) conditionspotential termsecond-order elliptic self-adjoint operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) General theory of partial differential operators (47F05) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15)

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