scholarly journals Existence and uniqueness of (infinitesimally) invariant measures for second order partial differential operators on Euclidean space

Author(s):  
Haesung Lee ◽  
Gerald Trutnau
Author(s):  
K. J. Brown ◽  
I. M. Michael

SynopsisIn a recent paper, Jyoti Chaudhuri and W. N. Everitt linked the spectral properties of certain second order ordinary differential operators with the analytic properties of the solutions of the corresponding differential equations. This paper considers similar properties of the spectrum of the corresponding partial differential operators.


Author(s):  
Johann Schröder

SynopsisThis paper provides a survey on a class of methods to obtain sufficient conditions for the inversemonotonicity of second-order differential operators. Pointwise differential inequalities as well as weak differential inequalities are treated. In particular, the theory yields results on the relation between inverse-mo no tone operators and monotone definite operators, i.e. monotone operators in the Browder–Minty sense. This presentation is restricted to ordinary differential operators. Most methods explained here can also be applied to elliptic-parabolic partial differential operators in essentially the same way.


Author(s):  
Robert Finn

One of the topics covered by most textbooks on partial differential equations is the classification problem for second-order equations in the plane. In a typical treatment, it is shown that under some smoothness conditions on the coefficients, hyperbolic and parabolic equations can be reduced locally to normal form (uniformized) by an elementary procedure. For elliptic equations, the procedure fails unless an extraneous hypothesis (analyticity of the coefficients) is introduced. It is then pointed out that a different and much deeper method (essentially the general uniformization theorem) is effective for the elliptic case and even yields a global result. It is striking, but not surprising in view of recent developments on generalized solutions, that the alternate (global) procedure for elliptic equations requires much less smoothness of the coefficients than is needed for a sensible local result in the other cases.


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