In the present paper we describe, how to use the Galerkin-method efficiently in solving boundary integral equations. In the first part we show how the elements of the system matrix can be computed in a reasonable time by using suitable coordinate transformations. These techniques can be applied to a wide class of integral equations (including hypersingular kernels) on piecewise smooth surfaces in 3-D, approximated by spline functions of arbitrary degree. In the second part we show, how to use the...

Presented herein is a method of constructing solutions of semilinear dissipative evolution equations in bounded domains. For small initial data this approach permits one to represent the solution in the form of an eigenfunction expansion series and to calculate the higher-order long-time asymptotics. It is applied to the spatially 3D Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation in the unit ball B in the linearly stable case. A global-in-time mild solution is constructed in the space $C⁰([0,\infty ),H{₀}^s\left(B\right))$, s < 2, and the uniqueness...

Subelliptic estimates on nilpotent Lie groups and the Cwikel-Lieb-Rosenblum inequality are used to estimate the number of eigenvalues for Schrödinger operators with polynomial potentials.

Let $P$ be a selfadjoint classical pseudo-differential operator of order $\&gt;1$ with non-negative principal symbol on a compact manifold. We assume that $P$ is hypoelliptic with loss of one derivative and semibounded from below. Then exp$(-tP)$, $t\ge 0$, is constructed as a non-classical Fourier integral operator and the main contribution to the asymptotic distribution of eigenvalues of $P$ is computed. This paper is a continuation of a series of joint works with A. Menikoff.

We consider the Robin eigenvalue problem $\Delta u+\lambda u=0$ in $\Omega$, $\partial u/\partial \nu +\alpha u=0$ on $\partial \Omega$ where $\Omega \subset {ℝ}^n$, $n\ge 2$ is a bounded domain and $\alpha$ is a real parameter. We investigate the behavior of the eigenvalues ${\lambda }_k\left(\alpha \right)$ of this problem as functions of the parameter $\alpha$. We analyze the monotonicity and convexity properties of the eigenvalues and give a variational proof of the formula for the derivative ${\lambda }_1^{\text{'}}\left(\alpha \right)$. Assuming that the boundary $\partial \Omega$ is of class $C^2$ we obtain estimates to the difference ${\lambda }_k^D-{\lambda }_k\left(\alpha \right)$ between the $k$-th eigenvalue of the Laplace operator with Dirichlet...

Let $\mathrm{\Omega }$ be a bounded open convex set of class $C^2$. Let $a\left(x,H\left(u\right)\right)$ be a non linear operator satisfying the condition (A) (elliptic) with constants $\alpha$, $\gamma$, $\delta$. We prove that a number $\lambda \ge 0$ is an eigenvalue for the operator $a\left(x,H\left(u\right)\right)$ if and only if the number $\alpha \lambda$ is an eigen-value for the operator $\mathrm{\Delta }u$. If $\lambda \ge 0$ , the two systems $a\left(x,H\left(u\right)\right)=\lambda u$ and $\mathrm{\Delta }u=\alpha \lambda u$ have the same solutions. In particular, also the eventual eigen-values of the operator $a\left(x,H\left(u\right)\right)$ should all be negative. Finally, we obtain a sufficient condition for the existence of solutions $u\in H^2\cap H_0^1\left(\mathrm{\Omega }\right)$ of the system...