We investigate the behaviour of a sequence ${\lambda }_s$, s = 1,2,..., of eigenvalues of the Dirichlet problem for the p-Laplacian in the domains ${\Omega }_s$, s = 1,2,..., obtained by removing from a given domain Ω a set $E_s$ whose diameter vanishes when s → ∞. We estimate the deviation of ${\lambda }_s$ from the eigenvalue of the limit problem. For the derivation of our results we construct an appropriate asymptotic expansion for the sequence of solutions of the original eigenvalue problem.

Let ϕ: [0,1] → [0,1] be a nondecreasing continuous function such that ϕ(x) > x for all x ∈ (0,1). Let the operator $V_{\varphi }:f\left(x\right)\mapsto {\int }_0^{\varphi \left(x\right)}f\left(t\right)dt$ be defined on L₂[0,1]. We prove that $V_{\varphi }$ has a finite number of nonzero eigenvalues if and only if ϕ(0) > 0 and ϕ(1-ε) = 1 for some 0 < ε < 1. Also, we show that the spectral trace of the operator $V_{\varphi }$ always equals 1.

We survey recent results concerning estimates of the principal eigenvalue of the Dirichlet $p$-Laplacian and the Navier $p$-biharmonic operator on a ball of radius $R$ in ${ℝ}^N$ and its asymptotics for $p$ approaching $1$ and $\infty$. Let $p$ tend to $\infty$. There is a critical radius $R_C$ of the ball such that the principal eigenvalue goes to $\infty$ for $0<R\le R_C$ and to $0$ for $R>R_C$. The critical radius is $R_C=1$ for any $N\in \mathbb{N}$ for the $p$-Laplacian and $R_C=\sqrt{2N}$ in the case of the $p$-biharmonic operator. When $p$ approaches $1$, the principal eigenvalue...

We construct some nondecreasing quantities associated to the first eigenvalue of $-{\Delta }_{\phi }+cR$ $(c\ge \frac{1}{2}(n-2)/(n-1))$ along the Yamabe flow, where ${\Delta }_{\phi }$ is the Witten-Laplacian operator with a $C^2$ function $\phi$. We also prove a monotonic result on the first eigenvalue of $-{\Delta }_{\phi }+\frac{1}{4}(n/(n-1))R$ along the Yamabe flow. Moreover, we establish some nondecreasing quantities for the first eigenvalue of $-{\Delta }_{\phi }+c{R}^a$ with $a\in (0,1)$ along the Yamabe flow.

We prove that if F is a Lipschitz map from the set of all complex n × n matrices into itself with F(0) = 0 such that given any x and y we know that F(x) - F(y) and x-y have at least one common eigenvalue, then either $F\left(x\right)=ux{u}^{-1}$ or $F\left(x\right)=u{x}^t{u}^{-1}$ for all x, for some invertible n × n matrix u. We arrive at the same conclusion by supposing F to be of class ¹ on a domain in ℳₙ containing the null matrix, instead of Lipschitz. We also prove that if F is of class ¹ on a domain containing the null matrix satisfying...

Let $A$ be a bounded linear operator in a complex separable Hilbert space $\mathscr{H}$, and $S$ be a selfadjoint operator in $\mathscr{H}$. Assuming that $A-S$ belongs to the Schatten-von Neumann ideal ${𝒮}_p$ $(p>1),$ we derive a bound for ${\sum }_k{|\mathrm{R}{\lambda }_k\left(A\right)-{\lambda }_k\left(S\right)|}^p$, where ${\lambda }_k\left(A\right)$ $(k=1,2,\cdots )$ are the eigenvalues of $A$. Our results are formulated in terms of the “extended” eigenvalue sets in the sense introduced by T. Kato. In addition, in the case $p=2$ we refine the Weyl inequality between the real parts of the eigenvalues of $A$ and the eigenvalues...

In this paper we consider the $\varphi$-Laplacian problem with Dirichlet boundary condition, $$-\mathrm{div}\left(\varphi \left(\right|\nabla u\left|\right)\frac{\nabla u}{\left|\nabla u\right|}\right){=\lambda g(·)\varphi \left(u\right)\text{in}\Omega ,\lambda \in ℝ\text{and}u|}_{\partial \Omega }=0.$$ The term $\varphi$ is a real odd and increasing homeomorphism, $g$ is a nonnegative function in $L^{\infty }\left(\Omega \right)$ and $\Omega \subseteq {ℝ}^N$ is a bounded domain. In these notes an analysis of the asymptotic behavior of sequences of eigenvalues of the differential equation is provided. We assume conditions which guarantee the existence of stationary solutions of the system. Under these rather stringent hypotheses we prove that any extremal is both...

Let $\left\{X_{ij}\right\}$, $i,j=\cdots$, be a double array of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) real random variables with $E{X}_{11}=\mu$, $E|X_{11}{-\mu |}^2=1$ and $E|X_{11}{|}^{4}lt;\infty$. Consider sample covariance matrices (with/without empirical centering) $𝒮=\frac{1}{n}{\sum }_{j=1}^n({𝐬}_j-\overline{𝐬}){({𝐬}_j-\overline{𝐬})}^T$ and $𝐒=\frac{1}{n}{\sum }_{j=1}^n{𝐬}_j{𝐬}_j^T$, where $\overline{𝐬}=\frac{1}{n}{\sum }_{j=1}^n{𝐬}_j$ and ${𝐬}_j={𝐓}_n^{1/2}{(X_{1j},...,X_{pj})}^T$ with ${\left({𝐓}_n^{1/2}\right)}^2={𝐓}_n$, non-random symmetric non-negative definite matrix. It is proved that central limit theorems of eigenvalue statistics of $𝒮$ and $𝐒$ are different as $n\to \infty$ with $p/n$ approaching a positive constant. Moreover, it is also proved that such a different behavior is not observed in the...

We discuss the discrete $p$-Laplacian eigenvalue problem, $$\left\{\begin{array}{c}\Delta \left({\phi }_p\left(\Delta u(k-1)\right)\right)+\lambda a\left(k\right)g\left(u\left(k\right)\right)=0,k\in \{1,2,...,T\},\hfill \\ u\left(0\right)=u(T+1)=0,\hfill \end{array}\right.$$ where $T>1$ is a given positive integer and ${\phi }_p\left(x\right):={\left|x\right|}^{p-2}x$, $p>1$. First, the existence of an unbounded continuum $𝒞$ of positive solutions emanating from $(\lambda ,u)=(0,0)$ is shown under suitable conditions on the nonlinearity. Then, under an additional condition, it is shown that the positive solution is unique for any $\lambda >0$ and all solutions are ordered. Thus the continuum $𝒞$ is a monotone continuous curve globally defined for all $\lambda >0$.

Motivated by the fundamental theorem of calculus, and based on the works of W. Feller as well as M. Kac and M. G. Kreĭn, given an atomless Borel probability measure $\eta$ supported on a compact subset of $ℝ$ U. Freiberg and M. Zähle introduced a measure-geometric approach to define a first order differential operator ${\nabla }_{\eta }$ and a second order differential operator ${\Delta }_{\eta }$, with respect to $\eta$. We generalize this approach to measures of the form $\eta :=\nu +\delta$, where $\nu$ is non-atomic and $\delta$ is finitely supported. We determine...

In this work we consider a diffusion problem in a periodic composite having three phases: matrix, fibers and interphase. The heat conductivities of the medium vary periodically with a period of size ${\epsilon }^{\beta }$ ($\epsilon >0$ and $\beta >0$) in the transverse directions of the fibers. In addition, we assume that the conductivity of the interphase material and the anisotropy contrast of the material in the fibers are of the same order ${\epsilon }^2$ (the so-called double-porosity type scaling) while the matrix material has a conductivity...