A trace formula is proved for pairs of selfadjoint operators that are close to each other in a certain sense. An important role is played by a function analytic in the open upper half-plane and with positive imaginary part there. This function, called the characteristic function of the pair, coincides with Krĕın’s Q-function in the case where the selfadjoint operators are canonical extensions o...

Self-adjoint extensions of elliptic operators are used to model the solution of a partial differential equation defined in a singularly perturbed domain. The asymptotic expansion of the solution of a Laplacian with respect to a small parameter ε is first performed in a domain perturbed by the creation of a small hole. The resulting singular perturbation is approximated by choosing an appropriat...

Let −iLT (essentially Lie derivative with respect to T , a smooth nowhere zero real vector field) and P be commuting differential operators, respectively of orders 1 and m ≥ 1, the latter formally normal, both acting on sections of a vector bundle over a closed manifold. It is shown that if P + (−iLT ) m is elliptic then the restriction of −iLT to D ⊂ kerP ⊂ L (D is carefully specified) yields ...

The combination of iterative methods with preconditionings based on incomplete LU factorizations constitutes an effective class of methods for solving the sparse linear systems arising from the discretization of elliptic partial differential equations. In this paper, we show that there are some settings in which the incomplete LU preconditioners are not effective, and we demonstrate that their ...

We define a new topology, weaker than the gap topology, on the space of selfadjoint unbounded operators on a separable Hilbert space. We show that the subspace of selfadjoint Fredholm operators represents the functor K from the category of compact spaces to the category of abelian groups and prove a similar result for K. We define the spectral flow of a continuous path of selfadjoint Fredholm o...