We give an explicit formula for the symbol of a function of an operator. Given a pseudo-differential operator on with symbol and a smooth function , we obtain the symbol of in terms of . As an application, Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rules are explicitly calculated at order 4 in .
We study a geometric generalization of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for the harmonic oscillatorwhere is the Laplace-Beltrami operator with respect to a “scattering metric” on a compact manifold with boundary (the class of scattering metrics is a generalization of asymptotically Euclidean metrics on , radially compactified to the ball) and is a perturbation of , with a boundary defining function for (e.g. in the compactified Euclidean case). Using the quadratic-scattering...
In a series of recent papers, Nils Dencker proves that condition implies the local solvability of principal type pseudodifferential operators (with loss of derivatives for all positive ), verifying the last part of the Nirenberg-Treves conjecture, formulated in 1971. The origin of this question goes back to the Hans Lewy counterexample, published in 1957. In this text, we follow the pattern of Dencker’s papers, and we provide a proof of local solvability with a loss of derivatives.
The paper provides a description of the wave map problem with a specific focus on the breakthrough work of T. Tao which showed that a wave map, a dynamic lorentzian analog of a harmonic map, from Minkowski space into a sphere with smooth initial data and a small critical Sobolev norm exists globally in time and remains smooth. When the dimension of the base Minkowski space is , the critical norm coincides with energy, the only manifestly conserved quantity in this (lagrangian) theory. As a consequence,...
For several classes of pseudodifferential operators with operator-valued symbol analytic index formulas are found. The common feature is that usual index formulas are not valid for these operators. Applications are given to pseudodifferential operators on singular manifolds.