Regular solutions of transmission and interaction problems for wave equations

Consider n bounded domains Ω ⊆ ℝ and elliptic formally symmetric differential operators A1 of second order on Ωi Choose any closed subspace V in , and extend (Ai)i=1,…,n by Friedrich's theorem to a self-adjoint operator A with D(A1/2) = V (interaction operator). We give asymptotic estimates for the eigenvalues of A and consider wave equations with interaction. With this concept, we solve a large class of problems including interface problems and transmission problems on ramified spaces.25,32 We also treat non-linear interaction, using a theorem of Minty29.