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Lower Bounds on the Number of Points in the Lower Spectrum of Elliptic Operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Walter Allegretto
Walter Allegretto*
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University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
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Let G denote an unbounded domain of Euclidean m-space Em with regular boundary, and let L be a self-adjoint operator generated in L2(G) by a second order elliptic expression. We denote by S(L) the spectrum of L, by µ the least point of the essential spectrum Se(L) and by N(L) the number of bound states of L; that is, the number of points in (–∞, µ) ∩ S(L). There are many results in the literature dealing with the localization, significance and properties of µ, of Se(L) and of (–∞, µ)⌒ S(L), with most of the emphasis on the cases where G = Em or G is the exterior of a closed surface in Em. We refer the reader to the books by Glazman [12], Schechter [19], Reed and Simon [18], and Paris [9], where extensive references are also found.

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Research Article
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1979 , pp. 419 - 426
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1979

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