In this paper, a rigorous convergence and error analysis of a Galerkin boundary element method for the Dirichlet Laplacian eigenvalue problem is presented. The formulation of the eigenvalue problem in terms of a boundary integral equation yields a nonlinear boundary integral operator eigenvalue problem. This nonlinear eigenvalue problem and its Galerkin approximation are analyzed in the framewo...

Large scale eigenvalue computation is about approximating certain invariant subspaces associated with the interested part of the spectrum, and the interested eigenvalues are then extracted from projecting the problem by approximate invariant subspaces into a much smaller eigenvalue problem. In the case of the linear response eigenvalue problem (aka the random phase eigenvalue problem), it is th...