Variational principles for self-adjoint operator functions arising from second-order systems

DOI10.7153/OAM-10-29MaRDI QIDQ2831898zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthias Langer, Carsten Trunk, Birgit Jacob

Publication date 3 November 2016

Published in Operators and Matrices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.7083

zbMATH Keywords

block operator matricesessential spectrumoperator functionsecond-order equationssectorial formspectrumvariational principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Functions whose values are linear operators (operator- and matrix-valued functions, etc., including analytic and meromorphic ones) (47A56) Variational methods for eigenvalues of operators (49R05)

Abstract: Variational principles are proved for self-adjoint operator functions arising from variational evolution equations of the form [ langleddot{z}(t),y angle + mathfrak{d}[dot{z} (t), y] + mathfrak{a}_0 [z(t),y] = 0. ] Here $mathfrak{a}_0$ and $mathfrakd$ are densely defined, symmetric and positive sesquilinear forms on a Hilbert space $H$. We associate with the variational evolution equation an equivalent Cauchy problem corresponding to a block operator matrix $mathcalA$, the forms [ mathfrak{t}(lambda)[x,y] := lambda^2langle x,y angle + lambdamathfrak{d}[x,y] + mathfrak{a}_0[x,y], ] where $lambdainmathbbC$ and $x,y$ are in the domain of the form $mathfrak{a}_0$, and a corresponding operator family $T(lambda)$. Using form methods we define a generalized Rayleigh functional and characterize the eigenvalues above the essential spectrum of $mathcalA$ by a min-max and a max-min variational principle. The obtained results are illustrated with a damped beam equation.

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