The pseudospectrum of systems of semiclassical operators

DOI10.2140/APDE.2008.1.323MaRDI QIDQ841570zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Niels Dencker

Publication date 17 September 2009

Published in Analysis \& PDE (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4561

zbMATH Keywords

non-selfadjoint pseudo-differential operatorssemiclassical analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Pseudodifferential operators as generalizations of partial differential operators (35S05) Pseudodifferential operators (47G30) Pseudodifferential and Fourier integral operators on manifolds (58J40)

Abstract: The pseudospectra (or spectral instability) of non-selfadjoint operators is a topic of current interest in applied mathematics. In fact, for non-selfadjoint operators the resolvent could be very large outside the spectrum, making the numerical computation of the complex eigenvalues very hard. This has importance, for example, in quantum mechanics, random matrix theory and fluid dynamics. The occurence of pseudospectra for non-selfadjoint semiclassical differential operators is due to the existence of quasimodes, i.e., approximate local solutions to the eigenvalue problem. For scalar operators, the quasimodes appear since the bracket condition is not satisfied for topological reasons, see the paper by Dencker, Sjostrand and Zworski in Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 57 (2004), 384-415. In this paper we shall investigate how these result can be generalized to square systems of semiclassical differential operators of principal type. These are the systems whose principal symbol vanishes of first order on its kernel. We show that the resolvent blows up as in the scalar case, except in a nowhere dense set of degenerate values. We also define quasi-symmetrizable systems and systems of subelliptic type for which we prove estimates on the resolvent.

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We quote from the abstract of the paper: ``The pseudospectrum (or spectral instability) of non-selfadjoint operators is a topic of current intereset in applied mathematics. In fact, for non-selfadjoint operators the resolvent could be very large outside the spectrum, making numerical computation of the complex eigenvalues very hard. This has importance, for example, in quantum mechanics, random matrix theory and fluid dynamics. The occurrence of false eigenvalues (or pseudospectrum) of non-selfadjoint semiclassical differential operators is due to the existence of quaismodes, that is, approximate local solutions to the eigenvalue problem. The operators considered by the author are \(N\times N\) system of semiclassical pseudo-differential operators in the Weyl quantization \[ P(h)u(x)= p^w(x, hD_x) u(x)= (2\pi)^{-n}\iint p((x+ y)/2, h\eta) e^{i(x- y)\eta} u(y)\,dy\,d\eta \] with matrix valued symbols \(p\). Results on the pseudospectrum for the scalar case \(N= 1\) are recalled from \textit{N. Dencker}, \textit{J. Sjöstrand} and \textit{M. Zworski} [Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 57, No. 3, 384--415 (2004; Zbl 1054.35035)]. The author is then addressed to the new phenomena appearing for systems. Particular attention is devoted to systems of subelliptic type, for which one obtains \[ \{w\in \mathbb{C}:|x- z|<\rho\lambda(h)\}\cap \sigma(P(h))=\emptyset\quad\text{for }0< h\leq h_0, \] where the function \(\lambda(h)\) depends on the type of subellipticity at \(z\) of \(P\). Other related results are presented, with several examples.

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