We study a two-particle quantum system given by a test particle interacting in three dimensions with a harmonic oscillator through a zero-range potential. We give a rigorous meaning to the Schrödinger operator associated with the system by applying the theory of quadratic forms and defining suitable families of self-adjoint operators. Finally we fully characterize the spectral properties of such operators.

Let $M$ be an $n$-dimensional ($n\ge 2$) simply connected Hadamard manifold. If the radial Ricci curvature of $M$ is bounded from below by $(n-1)k\left(t\right)$ with respect to some point $p\in M$, where $t=d(·,p)$ is the Riemannian distance on $M$ to $p$, $k\left(t\right)$ is a nonpositive continuous function on $(0,\infty )$, then the first $n$ nonzero Neumann eigenvalues of the Laplacian on the geodesic ball $B(p,l)$, with center $p$ and radius $0<l<\infty$, satisfy $$\frac{1}{{\mu }_1}+\frac{1}{{\mu }_2}+\cdots +\frac{1}{{\mu }_n}\ge \frac{l^{n+2}}{(n+2){\int }_0^l{f}^{n-1}\left(t\right)\mathrm{d}t},$$ where $f\left(t\right)$ is the solution to $$\left\{\begin{array}{c}{f}^{\text{'}\text{'}}\left(t\right)+k\left(t\right)f\left(t\right)=0\text{on}(0,\infty ),\hfill \\ f\left(0\right)=0,f^{\text{'}}\left(0\right)=1.\hfill \end{array}\right.$$

A non-homogeneous Hardy-like inequality has recently been found to be closely related to the knowledge of the lowest eigenvalue of a large class of Dirac operators in the gap of their continuous spectrum.

For simply connected planar domains with the maximal conformal radius 1 it was proven in 1954 by G. Pólya and M. Schiffer that for the eigenvalues λ of the fixed membrane for any n the following inequality holds [...] where λ(o) are the eigenvalues of the unit disk. The aim of the paper is to give a sharper version of this inequality and for the sum of all reciprocals to derive formulas which allow in some cases to calculate exactly this sum.

We study the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a guide the section of which is a thin annulus. Owing to the presence of a small parameter, explicit approximations of the TM and TE eigenmodes are obtained. The cases of smooth and non smooth boundaries are presented.

We study the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a guide the section of which is a thin annulus. Owing to the presence of a small parameter, explicit approximations of the TM and TE eigenmodes are obtained. The cases of smooth and non smooth boundaries are presented.

Asymptotics with sharp remainder estimates are recovered for number $𝐍\left(\tau \right)$ of eigenvalues of operator $A(x,D)-tW(x,x)$ crossing level $E$ as $t$ runs from $0$ to $\tau$, $\tau \to \infty$. Here $A$ is periodic matrix operator, matrix $W$ is positive, periodic with respect to first copy of $x$ and decaying as second copy of $x$ goes to infinity, $E$ either belongs to a spectral gap of $A$ or is one its ends. These problems are first treated in papers of M. Sh. Birman, M. Sh. Birman-A. Laptev and M. Sh. Birman-T. Suslina.

In this paper, we consider elliptic differential operators on compact manifolds with a random perturbation in the 0th order term and show under fairly weak additional assumptions that the large eigenvalues almost surely distribute according to the Weyl law, well-known in the self-adjoint case.