Search results for "Essential spectrum"

The essential spectrum of AM-compact operators

1991

Lacunary bifurcation for operator equations and nonlinear boundary value problems on ℝN

1991

SynopsisWe consider nonlinear eigenvalue problems of the form Lu + F(u) = λu in a real Hilbert space, where L is a positive self-adjoint linear operator and F is a nonlinearity vanishing to higher order at u = 0. We suppose that there are gaps in the essential spectrum of L and use critical point theory for strongly indefinite functionals to derive conditions for the existence of non-zero solutions for λ belonging to such a gap, and for the bifurcation of such solutions from the line of trivial solutions at the boundary points of a gap. The abstract results are applied to the L2-theory of semilinear elliptic partial differential equations on ℝN. We obtain existence results for the general c…

On essential spectra of operator-matrices and their Feshbach maps

2004

Abstract A connection between the essential spectrum of certain operator-matrices and essential spectra of the corresponding “Feshbach maps” is discussed and applied to some concrete rational operator-valued functions.

Composition operators on uniform algebras, essential norms, and hyperbolically bounded sets

2006

Let A be a uniform algebra, and let o be a self-map of the spectrum M A of A that induces a composition operator C o on A. The object of this paper is to relate the notion of "hyperbolic boundedness" introduced by the authors in 2004 to the essential spectrum of C o . It is shown that the essential spectral radius of C o , is strictly less than 1 if and only if the image of M A under some iterate o n of o is hyperbolically bounded. The set of composition operators is partitioned into "hyperbolic vicinities" that are clopen with respect to the essential operator norm. This partition is related to the analogous partition with respect to the uniform operator norm.

On spectra of geometric operators on open manifolds and differentiable groupoids

2001

We use a pseudodifferential calculus on differentiable groupoids to obtain new analytical results on geometric operators on certain noncompact Riemannian manifolds. The first step is to establish that the geometric operators belong to a pseudodifferential calculus on an associated differentiable groupoid. This then leads to Fredholmness criteria for geometric operators on suitable noncompact manifolds, as well as to an inductive procedure to compute their essential spectra. As an application, we answer a question of Melrose on the essential spectrum of the Laplace operator on manifolds with multicylindrical ends.