This paper is related to the spectral stability of traveling wave solutions of partial differential equations. In the first part of the paper we use the Gohberg-Rouche Theorem to prove equality of the algebraic multiplicity of an isolated eigenvalue of an abstract operator on a Hilbert space, and the algebraic multiplicity of the eigenvalue of the corresponding Birman-Schwinger type operator pencil. In the second part of the paper we apply this result...

We show that the domain of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operator on $L^p$$({ℝ}^N,\mu dx...$

Let W(A) and $W_e\left(A\right)$ be the joint numerical range and the joint essential numerical range of an m-tuple of self-adjoint operators A = (A₁, ..., Aₘ) acting on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. It is shown that $W_e\left(A\right)$ is always convex and admits many equivalent formulations. In particular, for any fixed i ∈ 1, ..., m, $W_e\left(A\right)$ can be obtained as the intersection of all sets of the form $cl\left(W(A₁,...,A_{i+1},A_i+F,A_{i+1},...,Aₘ)\right)$, where F = F* has finite rank. Moreover, the closure cl(W(A)) of W(A) is always star-shaped with the elements in $W_e\left(A\right)$ as star centers....

Si considera, in uno spazio di Hilbert $H$ l'operatore lineare ${\mathfrak{M}}_0\phi =1/2\text{Tr}\left[D^2\phi \right]+〈x,AD\phi 〉-〈DU\left(x\right),D\phi 〉$, dove $A$ è un operatore negative autoaggiunto e $U$ è un potenziale che soddisfa a opportune condizioni di integrabilità. Si dimostra con un metodo analitico che ${\mathfrak{M}}_0$ è essenzialmente autoaggiunto in uno spazio $L^2\left(H,\nu \right)$ e si caratterizza il dominio della sua chiusura $\mathfrak{M}$ come sottospazio di $W^{2,2}\left(H,\nu \right)$. Si studia inoltre la «spectral gap property» del semigruppo generato da $\mathfrak{M}$.

In this paper, the general ordinary quasi-differential expression $M_p$ of $n$-th order with complex coefficients and its formal adjoint $M_p^{+}$ on any finite number of intervals $I_p=(a_p,b_p)$, $p=1,\cdots ,N$, are considered in the setting of the direct sums of $L_{w_p}^2(a_p,b_p)$-spaces of functions defined on each of the separate intervals, and a number of results concerning the location of the point spectra and the regularity fields of general differential operators generated by such expressions are obtained. Some of these are extensions or generalizations...

The paper deals with the genericity of domain-dependent spectral properties of the Laplacian-Dirichlet operator. In particular we prove that, generically, the squares of the eigenfunctions form a free family. We also show that the spectrum is generically non-resonant. The results are obtained by applying global perturbations of the domains and exploiting analytic perturbation properties. The work is motivated by two applications: an existence result for the problem of maximizing the rate of...

We construct the fundamental solution of ${\partial }_t-{\Delta }_y-q(t,y)$ for functions q with a certain integral space-time relative smallness, in particular for those satisfying a relative Kato condition. The resulting transition density is comparable to the Gaussian kernel in finite time, and it is even asymptotically equal to the Gaussian kernel (in small time) under the relative Kato condition. The result is generalized to arbitrary strictly positive and finite time-nonhomogeneous transition densities on measure spaces. We...