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This paper investigates a class of non-autonomous highly oscillatory ordinary differential equations characterized by a linear component inversely proportional to a small parameter $\varepsilon$, with purely imaginary eigenvalues, and an…

We use variational methods to derive Hadamard-type formulae for the eigenvalues of a class of elliptic operators on a compact Riemannian manifold $M$. We then apply the latter in the following context. Consider a family of elliptic…

The particle in a well in dimension one is a classical problem in quantum mechanics. We study higher-dimensional analogues of the problem, where the well is a smooth domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$. We show that simple eigenvalues and…

The energy eigenvalues of the class of non-Hermitian PT-symmetric Hamiltonians $H=p^2+x^2(ix)^\epsilon$ ($\epsilon\geq0$) are real, positive, and discrete. The behavior of these eigenvalues has been studied perturbatively for small…

We consider an arbitrary metric graph, to which we glue another graph with edges of lengths proportional to $\varepsilon$, where $\varepsilon$ is a small positive parameter. On such graph, we consider a general self-adjoint second order…

Consider in $L^2 (\R^l)$ the operator family $H(\epsilon):=P_0(\hbar,\omega)+\epsilon Q_0$. $P_0$ is the quantum harmonic oscillator with diophantine frequency vector $\om$, $Q_0$ a bounded pseudodifferential operator with symbol…

Under certain assumptions we derive a complete semiclassical asymptotics of the spectral function $e_{h,\varepsilon}(x,x,\lambda)$ for a scalar operator \begin{equation*} A_\varepsilon (x,hD)= A^0(hD) + \varepsilon B(x,hD), \end{equation*}…

Let $\mathcal{O} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ be a bounded domain of class $C^2$. In the Hilbert space $L_2(\mathcal{O};\mathbb{C}^n)$, we consider a matrix elliptic second order differential operator $\mathcal{A}_{D,\varepsilon}$ with the…

The paper studies a bounded symmetric operator ${\mathbf{A}}_\varepsilon$ in $L_2(\mathbf{R}^d)$ with $$ ({\mathbf{A}}_\varepsilon u) (x) = \varepsilon^{-d-2} \int_{\mathbf{R}^d} a((x-y)/\varepsilon) \mu(x/\varepsilon, y/\varepsilon) \left(…

In modeling quantum systems or wave phenomena, one is often interested in identifying eigenstates that approximately carry a specified property; scattering states approximately align with incoming and outgoing traveling waves, for instance,…

In this article, we study the asymptotics of Dirichlet eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^s$ in bounded open Lipschitz sets in the small order limit $s \to 0^+$. While it is easy to see that all…

Consider an $M$-th order linear differential operator, $M\geq 2$, $$ \mathcal{L}^{(M)}=\sum_{k=0}^{M}\rho_{k}(z)\frac{d^k}{dz^k}, $$ where $\rho_M $ is a monic complex polynomial such that $degree[\rho_M]=M$ and $(\rho_k)_{k=0}^{M-1}$ are…

Using the well known approach developed in the papers of B. Davies and his co-authors we obtain inequalities for the location of possible complex eigenvalues of non-selfadjoint functional difference operators. When studying the sharpness of…

Let $H_0$ and $H$ be a pair of self-adjoint operators satisfying some standard assumptions of scattering theory. It is known from previous work that if $\lambda$ belongs to the absolutely continuous spectrum of $H_0$ and $H$, then the…

We present a finite difference method to compute the principal eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenfunction for a large class of second order elliptic operators including notably linear operators in nondivergence form and fully nonlinear…

We consider the discrete spectrum of the two-dimensional Hamiltonian $H=H_0+V$, where $H_0$ is a Schr\"odinger operator with a non-constant magnetic field $B$ that depends only on one of the spatial variables, and $V$ is an electric…

Let $\mathcal{O}\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ be a bounded domain of class $C^{1,1}$. In $L_2(\mathcal{O};\mathbb{C}^n)$, we consider a selfadjoint matrix second order elliptic differential operator $B_{D,\varepsilon}$, $0<\varepsilon\leqslant1$,…

For a class of non-selfadjoint $h$--pseudodifferential operators with double characteristics, we give a precise description of the spectrum and establish accurate semiclassical resolvent estimates in a neighborhood of the origin.…

We prove a semiclassical resolvent estimate for a broad class of non-self-adjoint, non-elliptic pseudodifferential operators in the low-lying spectral regime. The proof relies on improved ellipticity properties for the symbol of the…

We consider self-similar measures on $\mathbb R.$ The Hutchinson operator $H$ acts on measures and is the dual of the transfer operator $T$ which acts on continuous functions. We determine polynomial eigenfunctions of $T .$ As a…