Spectral Theory

We study an inverse spectral problem for arbitrary order ordinary differential equations on compact star-type graphs when differential equations have regular singularities at boundary vertices. As the main spectral characteristics we…

We study the lower bounds for the principal frequency of the $p$-Laplacian on $N$-dimensional Euclidean domains. For $p>N$, we obtain a lower bound for the first eigenvalue of the $p$-Laplacian in terms of its inradius, without any…

We consider the Steklov eigenvalues of the Laplace operator as limiting Neumann eigenvalues in a problem of boundary mass concentration. We discuss the asymptotic behavior of the Neumann eigenvalues in a ball and we deduce that the Steklov…

This paper is concerned with the lower bounds for the principal frequency of the $p$-Laplacian on $n$-dimensional Euclidean domains. In particular, we extend the classical results involving the inner radius of a domain and the first…

This paper analyses the periodic spectrum of Schr\"odinger's equation $-f''+qf=\lambda f$ when the potential is real, periodic, random and subject to the invariant measure $\nu_N^\beta$ of the periodic KdV equation. This $\nu_N^\beta$ is…

We establish the convergence of pseudospectra in Hausdorff distance for closed operators acting in different Hilbert spaces and converging in the generalised norm resolvent sense. As an assumption, we exclude the case that the limiting…

We study the quasi-periodic Schr\"odinger equation $$ -\psi"(x) + V(x) \psi(x) = E \psi(x), \qquad x \in \IR $$ in the regime of "small" $V$. Let $(E_m',E"_m)$, $m \in \zv$, be the standard labeled gaps in the spectrum. Our main result says…

We prove sharp upper bounds for sums of eigenvalues (and other spectral functionals) of Laplace-like operators, including bi-Laplacian and fractional Laplacian. We show that among linear images of a highly symmetric domain, our spectral…

We estimate the volume of superlevel sets of Laplace-Beltrami eigenfunctions on a compact Riemannian manifold. The proof uses the Green's function representation and the Bathtub principle. As an application, we obtain upper bounds on the…

We find a necessary and sufficient condition for a Herglotz function $m$ to be the Borel transform of the spectral measure of an exponentially decaying perturbation of a periodic Jacobi matrix. The condition is in terms of meromorphic…

We consider the Dirichlet Laplacian in the half-plane with constant magnetic field. Due to the translational invariance this operator admits a fiber decomposition and a family of dis- persion curves, that are real analytic functions. Each…

We prove that if $A$ and $B$ are Hadamard matrices which are both of size $4 \times 4$ or $5 \times 5$ and in dephased form, then $tr(A) = tr(B)$ implies that $A$ and $B$ have the same eigenvalues, including multiplicity. We calculate…

Given Banach spaces $\mathcal{X}$ and $\mathcal{Y}$ and Banach space operators $A\in L(\mathcal{X})$ and $B\in L(\mathcal{Y}).$ The generalized derivation $\delta_{A,B} \in L(L(\mathcal{Y},\mathcal{X}))$ is defined by…

Let $\mu$ be a matrix-valued measure with the essential spectrum a single interval and countably many point masses outside of it. Under the assumption that the absolutely continuous part of $\mu$ satisfies Szego's condition and the point…

We consider a Schr\"odinger Operator with a matrix potential defined in $L_2^m(F)$ by the differential expression\begin{equation*} L(\phi(x))=(-\Delta+V(x))\phi(x) \end{equation*}and the Neumann boundary condition, where $F$ is the $d$…

This paper extends to two dimensions the recent signal analysis method based on the semi-classical analysis of the Schrodinger operator. The generalization uses the separation of variables technique when writing the eigenfunctions of the…

We study the model operator $\mathbf{D}_{\mathbf{A}} = (d/dt) + \mathbf{A}$ in $L^2(\mathbb{R};\mathcal{H})$ associated with the operator path $\{A(t)\}_{t=-\infty}^{\infty}$, where $(\mathbf{A} f)(t) = A(t) f(t)$ for a.e.\…

We propose a general condition, to ensure essential self-adjointness for the Gau{\ss}-Bonnet operator, based on a notion of completeness as Chernoff. This gives essential self-adjointness of the Laplace operator both for functions or…

This papers deals with congruence subgroups of convex cocompact subgroups of PSL2(Z). We examine the behaviour of the resonance spectrum when the congruence parameter q goes to infinity: we show a lower bound for the counting function in…

In the case of the sphere and the square, Antonie Stern (1925) claimed in her PhD thesis the existence of an infinite sequence of eigenvalues whose corresponding eigenspaces contain an eigenfunction with two nodal domains. These two…