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In this paper we prove unique continuation principles for some systems of elliptic partial differential equations satisfying a suitable superlinearity condition. As an application, we obtain nonexistence of nontrivial (not necessarily…
We prove an asymptotic expansion for the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of Schr\"{o}dinger-type operator with a confining potential and with principle part a periodic elliptic operator in divergence form. We compare the spectrum to the…
Wiener's criterion for the regularity of a boundary point with respect to the Dirichlet problem for the Laplace equation has been extended to various classes of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations. They include linear…
Given $n$ i.i.d. observations, we study the problem of estimating the spectrum of weighted Laplace operators of the form $\Delta_f=\Delta + \alpha \nabla \log f\cdot \nabla$, where $f$ is a positive probability density on a known compact…
We consider an alloy type potential on an infinite metric graph. We assume a covering condition on the single site potentials. For random Schr\"odingers operator associated with the alloy type potential restricted to finite volume subgraphs…
In this paper, we prove the strong unique continuation property at the origin for solutions of the following scaling critical parabolic differential inequality \[ |\operatorname{div} (A(x,t) \nabla u) - u_t| \leq \frac{M}{|x|^{2}} |u|,\ \ \…
We obtain order sharp spectral estimates for the difference of resolvents of singularly perturbed elliptic operators $\mathbf{A}+\mathbf{V}_1$ and $\mathbf{A}+\mathbf{V}_2$ in a domain $\Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}^\mathbf{N}$ with…
In this paper, we obtain new Carleman estimates for a class of variable coefficient degenerate elliptic operators whose constant coefficient model at one point is the so called Baouendi-Grushin operator. This generalizes the results…
We consider the elliptic differential operator defined as the sum of the minimum and the maximum eigenvalue of the Hessian matrix, which can be viewed as a degenerate elliptic Isaacs operator, in dimension larger than two. Despite of…
In the present paper we establish sharp exponential decay estimates for operator and integral kernels of the (not necessarily self-adjoint) operators $L=-(\nabla-i\mathbf{a})^TA(\nabla-i\mathbf{a})+V$. The latter class includes, in…
We study the generalized eigenvalue problem on the whole space for a class of integro-differential elliptic operators. The nonlocal operator is over a finite measure, but this has no particular structure. Some of our results even hold for…
We consider the weighted eigenvalue problem for a general non-local pseudo-differential operator, depending on a bounded weight function. For such problem, we prove that strict (decreasing) monotonicity of the eigenvalues with respect to…
Based on the three-ball inequality and the doubling inequality established in [23], we quantify the strong unique continuation established by Koch and Tataru [21] for elliptic operators with unbounded lower-order coefficients. We also…
Eigenvalue problems for semidefinite operators with infinite dimensional kernels appear for instance in electromagnetics. Variational discretizations with edge elements have long been analyzed in terms of a discrete compactness property. As…
We provide an abstract framework for singular one-dimensional Schroedinger operators with purely discrete spectra to show when the spectrum plus norming constants determine such an operator completely. As an example we apply our findings to…
This paper is concerned with the homogenization of the Dirichlet eigenvalue problem, posed in a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^2$, for a vectorial elliptic operator $-\nabla\cdot A^\epsilon(\cdot)\nabla$ with $\epsilon$-periodic…
We prove the unique continuation property for the differential inequality $|(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}u|\leq|V(x)u|$, where $0<\alpha<n$ and $V\in L_{\textrm{loc}}^{n/\alpha,\infty}(\mathbb{R}^n)$, $n\geq3$.
In this work we study the homogenization problem for (nonlinear) eigenvalues of quasilinear elliptic operators. We prove convergence of the first and second eigenvalues and, in the case where the operator is independent of $\varepsilon$,…
In this paper, we prove the strong unique continuation property for the following fourth order degenerate elliptic equation \begin{equation*} \Delta^2_{X}u=Vu, \end{equation*} where $\Delta_{X}=\Delta_{x}+|x|^{2\alpha}\Delta_{y}$…
We consider the eigenvalue problem for certain classes of elliptic operators, namely inhomogeneous membrane operators $ L = \tfrac{1}{ \rho } ( -\Delta + V ) $ and divergence form operators $ L = -\operatorname{div} A \nabla $, on bounded…