On utilizing the spectral representation of selfadjoint operators in Hilbert spaces, some error bounds in approximating $n$-time differentiable functions of selfadjoint operators in Hilbert Spaces via a Taylor's type expansion are given.

1. Elliptic Differential Operators 1 1.1. Partial differential operators 1 1.2. Sobolev spaces and Hölder spaces 10 1.3. Apriori estimates and elliptic regularity 20 1.4. Elliptic operators on compact manifolds 28 2. Non-linear Elliptic Equations 35 2.1. Banach manifolds and Fredholm operators 35 2.2. Moduli space of nonlinear elliptic equations 39 2.3. The Sard-Smale theorem and transversality...

Motivated by the problem of analytic hypoellipticity, we show that a special family of compact non selfadjoint operators has a non zero eigenvalue. We recover old results obtained by ordinary differential equations techniques and show how it can be applied to the higher dimensional case. This gives in particular a new class of hypoelliptic, but not analytic hypoelliptic operators.

For selfadjoint elliptic operators in divergence form with ?-periodic coefficients of even order 2m ? 4 we approximate the resolvent energy operator norm $$ {\left\Vert \bullet \right\Vert}_{L^2\to {H}^m} a remainder ?2 as ? ? 0.

We study the problem of finding the instability index of certain non-selfadjoint fourth order differential operators that appear as linearizations of coating and rimming flows, where a thin layer of fluid coats a horizontal rotating cylinder. The main result reduces the computation of the instability index to a finite-dimensional space of trigonometric polynomials. The proof uses Lyapunov’s met...

Consider a selfadjoint unbounded operator D on a Hilbert space H and a one parameter norm continuous family of selfadjoint bounded operators {A(t) | t ∈ R} that converges in norm to asymptotes A± at ±∞. Then under certain conditions [RoSa95] that include the assumption that the operators {D(t) = D + A(t), t ∈ R} all have discrete spectrum then the spectral flow along the path {D(t)} can be show...

We consider elliptic operators A on a bounded domain, that are compact perturbations of a selfadjoint operator. We first recall some spectral properties of such operators: localization of the spectrum and resolvent estimates. We then derive a spectral inequality that measures the norm of finite sums of root vectors of A through an observation, with an exponential cost. Following the strategy of...

Hill’s method is a means to numerically approximate spectra of linear differential operators with periodic coefficients. In this paper, we address different issues related to the convergence of Hill’s method. We show the method does not produce any spurious approximations, and that for selfadjoint operators, the method converges in a restricted sense. Furthermore, assuming convergence of an eig...

This paper touches upon several traditional topics of 1D linear complex analysis including distribution of zeros of entire functions, completeness problem for complex exponentials and for other families of special functions, some problems of spectral theory of selfadjoint differential operators. Their common feature is the close relation to the theory of complex Fourier transform of compactly s...

We study low lying eigenvalues for non-selfadjoint semiclassical differential operators, where symmetries play an important role. In the case of the Kramers-Fokker-Planck operator, we show how the presence of certain supersymmetric and PT -symmetric structures leads to precise results concerning the reality and the size of the exponentially small eigenvalues in the semiclassical (here the low t...