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Enclosure Theorems for Eigenvalues of Elliptic Operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

John C. Clements*
Affiliation:
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Let L be the linear, elliptic, self-adjoint partial differential operator given by

where Dj denotes partial differentiation with respect to xj, 1 ≤ jn, b is a positive, continuous real-valued function of x = (x1,…,xn) in n-dimensional Euclidean space En, the aij are real-valued functions possessing uniformly continuous first partial derivatives in En and the matrix {aij} is everywhere positive definite. A solution u of Lu = 0 is assumed to be of class C1.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1970

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