Numerical Analysis of Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems

Numerical Analysis of Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems

We provide a priori error estimates for variational approximations of the ground state eigenvalue and eigenvector of nonlinear elliptic eigenvalue problems of the form −div(A∇u) + V u + f(u)u = λu, ‖u‖L2 = 1. We focus in particular on the Fourier spectral approximation (for periodic problems) and on the P1 and P2 finite-element discretizations. Denoting by (uδ, λδ) a variational approximation o...

Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems

Heinrich Voss Hamburg University of Technology 115.1 Basic Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115-2 115.2 Analytic matrix functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115-3 115.3 Variational Characterization of Eigenvalues . . . . . . . . 115-7 115.4 General Rayleigh Functionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Solving nonlinear eigenvalue problems

Two-parametric nonlinear eigenvalue problems

Eigenvalue problems of the form x′′ = −λf(x) + μg(x−), (i), x(0) = 0, x(1) = 0, (ii) are considered, where x and x− are the positive and negative parts of x respectively. We are looking for (λ, μ) such that the problem (i), (ii) has a nontrivial solution. This problem generalizes the famous Fuč́ık problem for piece-wise linear equations. In our considerations functions f and g may be nonlinear f...

Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems in the Stability Analysis of Morphogen Gradients

This paper is concerned with several eigenvalue problems in the linear stability analysis of steady state morphogen gradients for several models of Drosophila wing imaginal discs including one not previously considered. These problems share several common difficulties including the following: (a) The steady state solution which appears in the coefficients of the relevant differential equations ...