We consider the operator in ${ℝ}^d,d\ge 2$, of the form $H={(-\Delta )}^l+V,l\>0$ with a function $V$ periodic with respect to a lattice in ${ℝ}^d$. We prove that the number of gaps in the spectrum of $H$ is finite if $8l\>d+3$. Previously the finiteness of the number of gaps was known for $4l\>d+1$. Various approaches to this problem are discussed.

This paper deals with the questions of the existence and uniqueness of a solution to the Dirichlet problem associated with the Dunkl Laplacian ${\Delta }_k$ as well as the hypoellipticity of ${\Delta }_k$ on noninvariant open sets.

We study the dynamic behavior and stability of two connected Rayleigh beams that are subject to, in addition to two sensors and two actuators applied at the joint point, one of the actuators also specially distributed along the beams. We show that with the distributed control employed, there is a set of generalized eigenfunctions of the closed-loop system, which forms a Riesz basis with parenthesis for the state space. Then both the spectrum-determined growth condition and exponential stability...

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.

We consider the general Schrödinger operator $L=div\left(A\left(x\right){\nabla }_x\right)-\mu$ on a half-space in ℝⁿ, n ≥ 3. We prove that the L-Green function G exists and is comparable to the Laplace-Green function $G_{\Delta }$ provided that μ is in some class of signed Radon measures. The result extends the one proved on the half-plane in [9] and covers the case of Schrödinger operators with potentials in the Kato class at infinity $K{ₙ}^{\infty }$ considered by Zhao and Pinchover. As an application we study the cone ${}_L\left(ℝⁿ₊\right)$ of all positive L-solutions continuously vanishing...

For d > 1, let $\left(S_{d}f\right)(x,t)={ʃ}_{{ℝ}^n}{e}^{ix·\xi }{e}^{{it\left|\xi \right|}^d}f̂\left(\xi \right)d\xi$, $x\in {ℝ}^n$, where f̂ is the Fourier transform of $f\in S\left({ℝ}^n\right)$, and $(S_d*f)\left(x\right)=su{p}_{0<t<1}\left|\left(S_{d}f\right)(x,t)\right|$ its maximal operator. P. Sjölin ([11]) has shown that for radial f, the estimate (*) $({ʃ}_{\left|x\right|<R}|(S_d*f)\left(x\right){{|}^{p}dx)}^{1/p}\le C_R\parallel f{\parallel }_{H_{1/4}}$ holds for p = 4n/(2n-1) and fails for p > 4n/(2n-1). In this paper we show that for non-radial f, (*) fails for p > 2. A similar result is proved for a more general maximal operator.