On the essential spectrum of many-particle pseudorelativistic Hamiltonians with permutational symmetry account.
We study the existence of principal eigenvalues for differential operators of second order which are not necessarily in divergence form. We obtain results concerning multiplicity of principal eigenvalues in both the variational and the general case. Our approach uses systematically the Krein-Rutman theorem and fixed point arguments for the inverse of the spectral radius of some associated problems. We also use a variational characterization for both the self-adjoint and the general case.
Let be a compact manifold let be a finite group acting freely on , and let be the (Fréchet) space of -invariant metric on . A natural conjecture is that, for a generic metric in , all eigenspaces of the Laplacian are irreducible (as orthogonal representations of ). In physics terminology, no “accidental degeneracies” occur generically. We will prove this conjecture when dim dim for all irreducibles of . As an application, we construct isospectral manifolds with simple eigenvalue...
In this paper we study the behavior of solutions of the boundary value problem for the Poisson equation in a partially perforated domain with arbitrary density of cavities and mixed type conditions on their boundary. The corresponding spectral problem is also considered. A short communication of similar results can be found in [1].
We present a simple proof of the fact that if is a bounded domain in , , which is convex and symmetric with respect to orthogonal directions, , then the nodal sets of the eigenfunctions of the laplacian corresponding to the eigenvalues must intersect the boundary. This result was proved by Payne in the case for the second eigenfunction, and by other authors in the case of convex domains in the plane, again for the second eigenfunction.