Accidental Degeneracy of an Elliptic Differential Operator: A Clarification in Terms of Ladder Operators

We consider the linear, second-order elliptic, Schrödinger-type differential operator L:=−12∇2+r22. Because of its rotational invariance, that is it does not change under SO(3) transformations, the eigenvalue problem −12∇2+r22f(x,y,z)=λf(x,y,z) can be studied more conveniently in spherical polar coordinates. It is already known that the eigenfunctions of the problem depend on three parameters. The so-called accidental degeneracy of L occurs when the eigenvalues of the problem depend on one of such parameters only. We exploited ladder operators to reformulate accidental degeneracy, so as to provide a new way to describe degeneracy in elliptic PDE problems.

Investigation of the Spectral Properties of a Non-Self-Adjoint Elliptic Differential Operator

Non-self-adjoint operators have many applications, including quantum and heat equations. On the other hand, the study of these types of operators is more difficult than that of self-adjoint operators. In this paper, our aim is to study the resolvent and the spectral properties of a class of non-self-adjoint differential operators. So we consider a special non-self-adjoint elliptic differential operator (Au)(x) acting on Hilbert space and first investigate the spectral properties of space H 1 = L 2 Ω 1 . Then, as the application of this new result, the resolvent of the considered operator in ℓ -dimensional space Hilbert H ℓ = L 2 Ω ℓ is obtained utilizing some analytic techniques and diagonalizable way.

Resolvent Approximations in L2-Norm for Elliptic Operators Acting in a Perforated Space

We study homogenization of a second-order elliptic differential operator Aε = - div a(x/ε)∇ acting in an ε-periodically perforated space, where ε is a small parameter. Coefficients of the operator Aε are measurable ε-periodic functions. The simplest case where coefficients of the operator are constant is also interesting for us. We find an approximation for the resolvent (Aε + 1)-1 with remainder term of order ε2 as ε → 0 in operator L2-norm on the perforated space. This approximation turns to be the sum of the resolvent (A0 + 1)-1 of the homogenized operator A0 = - div a0 ∇, a0 > 0 being a constant matrix, and some correcting operator εCε. The proof of this result is given by the modified method of the first approximation with the usage of the Steklov smoothing operator.

Continuity Points Via Riesz Potentials for ℂ-Elliptic Operators

We establish a Riesz potential criterion for Lebesgue continuity points of functions of bounded $\mathbb{A}$-variation, where $\mathbb{A}$ is a $\mathbb{C}$-elliptic differential operator of arbitrary order. This result generalizes a potential criterion that is known for full gradients to the case where full gradient estimates are not available by virtue of Ornstein’s non-inequality.