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A Sturm Liouville theorem for quadratic operator pencils

Classical Analysis and ODEs 2019-07-15 v1 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We establish a Sturm{Liouville theorem for quadratic operator pencils counting their unstable real roots, with applications to stability of waves. Such pencils arise, for example, in reduction of eigenvalue systems to higher-order scalar problems.

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@article{arxiv.1907.05679,
  title  = {A Sturm Liouville theorem for quadratic operator pencils},
  author = {Alim Sukhtayev and Kevin Zumbrun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.05679},
  year   = {2019}
}