Completeness properties in L2 of the eigenfunctions of two semi-linear differential operators

1980 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. E. Fraenkel
Keyword(s):  
Hilbert Space ◽  
Product Space ◽  
Orthonormal Basis ◽  
Differential Operators ◽  
Real Hilbert Space ◽  
The Real ◽  
Linear Differential Operators ◽  
Linear Problems ◽  
Linear Differential ◽  
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This paper concerns the boundary-value problemsin which λ is a real parameter, u is to be a real-valued function in C2[0, 1], and problem (I) is that with the minus sign. (The differential operators are called semi-linear because the non-linearity is only in undifferentiated terms.) If we linearize the equations (for ‘ small’ solutions u) by neglecting , there result the eigenvalues λ = n2π2 (with n = 1,2,…) and corresponding normalized eigenfunctionsand it is well known ((2), p. 186) that the sequence {en} is complete in that it is an orthonormal basis for the real Hilbert space L2(0, 1). We shall be concerned with possible extensions of this result to the non-linear problems (I) and (II), for which non-trivial solutions (λ, u) bifurcate from the trivial solution (λ, 0) at the points {n2π2,0) in the product space × L2(0, 1). (Here denotes the real line.)

On the location of eigenvalues of second order linear differential operators

1978 ◽  
Vol 80 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 15-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Knowles
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Condition ◽  
Hilbert Space ◽  
Differential Expression ◽  
Differential Operators ◽  
Homogeneous Boundary Condition ◽  
Upper Bounds ◽  
Order Linear ◽  
Linear Differential Operators ◽  
Linear Differential ◽  
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SynopsisThis paper is concerned with finding upper bounds on the set of eigenvalues of self-adjoint differential operators generated in the Hilbert space L2[0, ∞) by the differential expressionon [0,∞), together with a real homogeneous boundary condition at t = 0.

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