We establish a sharp upper bound for the resonance counting function for a class of asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds in arbitrary dimension, including convex, cocompact hyperbolic manifolds in two dimensions. The proof is based on the construction of a suitable paramatrix for the absolute $S$-matrix that is unitary for real values of the energy. This paramatrix is the $S$-matrix for a model laplacian corresponding to a separable metric near infinity. The proof of the upper bound on the resonance...

We consider selfadjoint positively definite operators of the form $-\Delta +P$ (not necessarily elliptic) in ${ℝ}^n$, $n\ge 3$, odd, where $P$ is a second-order differential operator with coefficients of compact supports. We show that the number of the scattering poles outside a conic neighbourhood of the real axis admits the same estimates as in the elliptic case. More precisely, if $\left\{{\lambda }_j\right\}(Im{\lambda }_j\ge 0_{)}$ are the scattering poles associated to the operator $-\Delta +P$ repeated according to multiplicity, it is proved that for any $ϵ\>0$ there exists a constant...

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 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...

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.

A simpler proof of a result of Burq [1] is presented.