Essential spectrum of singular discrete linear Hamiltonian systems

The paper is concerned with the essential spectral points of singular discrete linear Hamiltonian systems. Several sufficient conditions for a real point to be in the essential spectrum are obtained in terms of the number of linearly independent square‐summable solutions of the corresponding homogeneous linear system, and a sufficient and necessary condition for a real point to be in the essential spectrum is given in terms of the number of linearly independent square‐summable solutions of the corresponding nonhomogeneous linear system. As a direct consequence, the corresponding results for singular higher‐order symmetric vector difference expressions are given.     

Lower bound for the spectrum and the presence of pure point spectrum of a singular discrete Hamiltonian system

In this paper, criteria for limit-point (n) case of a singular discrete Hamiltonian system are established. Furthermore, the lower bound of the essential spectrum is obtained and the present of pure point spectrum is discussed for such system by using the spectral theory of self-adjoint operators in a Hilbert space.     

Approximation of eigenvalues below the essential spectra of singular second-order symmetric linear difference equations

This paper is concerned with approximation of eigenvalues below the essential spectra of singular second-order symmetric linear difference equations with at least one endpoint in the limit point case. A sufficient condition is firstly given for that the k-th eigenvalue of a self-adjoint subspace (relation) below its essential spectrum is exactly the limit of the k-th eigenvalues of a sequence of self-adjoint subspaces. Then, by applying it to singular second-order symmetric linear difference equations, the approximation of eigenvalues below the essential spectra is obtained, i.e., for any given self-adjoint subspace extension of the corresponding minimal subspace, its k-th eigenvalue below its essential spectrum is exactly the limit of the k-th eigenvalues of a sequence of constructed induced regular self-adjoint subspace extensions.     

The essential spectrum of boundary value problems for systems of differential equations in a bounded domain with a cusp

Simple algebraic conditions are found for the existence of essential spectrum of the Neumann problem operator for a formally self-adjoint elliptic system of differential equations in a domain with a cuspidal singular point. The spectrum is discrete in the scalar case.     

Defect indices and definiteness conditions for a class of discrete linear Hamiltonian systems

This paper is concerned with a class of discrete linear Hamiltonian systems in finite or infinite intervals. A definiteness condition and its equivalent statements are discussed and three sufficient conditions for the definiteness condition are given. A precise relationship between the defect index of the minimal subspace generated by the system and the number of linearly independent square summable solutions of the system is established. In particular, they are equal if and only if the definiteness condition is satisfied. Finally, two criteria for the limit point case and one criterion for the limit circle case are obtained.     

Spectra of Hamiltonians of molecule pseudorelativistic electrons in spaces of functions with permutational and point symmetry

We study the spectral properties of the Hamiltonian H _n of n pseudorelativistic electrons in the Coulomb field of k fixed nuclei in spaces of functions having arbitrary given types of permutational and point symmetry. For this operator, we establish the location of the essential spectrum, obtain two-sided estimates of the discrete spectrum counting function in terms of the counting functions of the discrete spectrum of some two-particle nonrelativistic operators, and find the leading term of the spectral asymptotics.     

Boundary value problems of discrete generalized Emden-Fowler equation

By using the critical point theory, some sufficient conditions for the existence of the solutions to the boundary value problems of a discrete generalized Emden-Fowler equation are obtained. In a special case, a sharp condition is obtained for the existence of the boundary value problems of the above equation. For a linear case, by the discrete variational theory, a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence, uniqueness and multiplicity of the solutions is also established.     

Robust D-stability analysis for linear discrete singular time-delay systems with structured and unstructured parameter uncertainties

In this paper, the robust D-stability problem (i.e. the robusteigenvalue-clustering in a specified circular region problem)of linear discrete singular time-delay systems with structured(elemental) and unstructured (norm-bounded) parameter uncertaintiesis investigated. Under the assumptions that the linear nominaldiscrete singular time-delay system is regular and impulse-free,and has all its finite eigenvalues lying inside a specifiedcircular region, a new sufficient condition is proposed to preservethe assumed properties when structured and unstructured parameteruncertainties are added into the linear nominal discrete singulartime-delay system. When all the finite eigenvalues are justrequired to locate inside the unit circle of the z-plane, theproposed criterion will become the stability robustness criterion.For the case that the linear discrete singular time-delay systemis only subject to structured parameter uncertainties, by anillustrative example, the presented sufficient condition isshown to be less conservative than the existing one reportedrecently in the literature.     

Nonself-adjoint operators with almost Hermitian spectrum: Cayley identity and some questions of spectral structure

Nonself-adjoint, non-dissipative perturbations of possibly unbounded self-adjoint operators with real purely singular spectrum are considered under an additional assumption that the characteristic function of the operator possesses a scalar multiple. Using a functional model of a nonself-adjoint operator (a generalization of a Sz.-Nagy–Foiaş model for dissipative operators) as a principle tool, spectral properties of such operators are investigated. A class of operators with almost Hermitian spectrum (the latter being a part of the real singular spectrum) is characterized in terms of existence of the so-called weak outer annihilator which generalizes the classical Cayley identity to the case of nonself-adjoint operators in Hilbert space. A similar result is proved in the self-adjoint case, characterizing the condition of absence of the absolutely continuous spectral subspace in terms of the existence of weak outer annihilation. An application to the rank-one nonself-adjoint Friedrichs model is given.     

Strong limit point criteria for a class of singular discrete linear Hamiltonian systems

This paper is concerned with the limit point case for a class of singular discrete linear Hamiltonian systems. The limit point case is divided into the strong and the weak limit point cases. Several sufficient conditions for the strong limit point case are established. In consequence, two criteria of the strong limit point case for second-order formally self-adjoint vector difference equations are obtained.     

Limit Point, strong limit point and Dirichlet conditions for discrete Hamiltonian systems

This paper deals with discrete Hamiltonian systems with a singular endpoint. The limit point condition, the strong limit point condition and the Dirichlet condition are studied based on asymptotic behaviors or square summabilities in the maximal domains. The equivalence between the limit point and strong limit point conditions is established for a class of such systems; and for degenerated Hamiltonian system, the three conditions are shown to imply each other.     

一类具指数系数的对称微分算子谱的离散性

研究了具指数函数系数的2n阶实系数微分算式生成的对称微分算子,利用算子的直和分解法及不等式估计得到此类微分算子谱是离散的充分条件.     

The Gelfand-Levitan Theory Revisited

Gelfand and Levitan in their celebrated article in 1951, and later Gasymov and Levitan in 1964 have shown that a monotone increasing function is a spectral function of a singular Sturm-Liouville problem on a half-line in the limit point case at infinity if and only if it satisfies an existence and a smoothness condition. In this article, a closer look at the original statement reveals that the existence condition in fact follows from the smoothness condition which simplifies significantly the statement of the Gelfand-Levitan theory. We also provide two sufficient and verifiable conditions for a nondecreasing function to be the spectral function of a singular Sturm Liouville operator.     

Nonself-Adjoint Operators with Almost Hermitian Spectrum: Weak Annihilators

We consider nonself-adjoint nondissipative trace class additive perturbations L=A+iV of a bounded self-adjoint operator A in a Hilbert space ,H. The main goal is to study the properties of the singular spectral subspace N _i ⁰ of L corresponding to part of the real singular spectrum and playing a special role in spectral theory of nonself-adjoint nondissipative operators.To some extent, the properties of N _i ⁰ resemble those of the singular spectral subspace of a self-adjoint operator. Namely, we prove that L and the adjoint operator ,L ^* are weakly annihilated by some scalar bounded outer analytic functions if and only if both of them satisfy the condition N _i ⁰ =H. This is a generalization of the well-known Cayley identity to nonself-adjoint operators of the above-mentioned class.     

Geometrically infinite surfaces with discrete length spectra

It is well-known that the length spectrum of a geometrically finite hyperbolic manifold is discrete. In this paper, we begin a study of the length spectrum for geometrically infinite hyperbolic surfaces. In this generality, it is possible that the spectrum is not discrete and the main focus of this work is to find necessary and sufficient conditions for a geometrically infinite surface to have a discrete spectrum. After deriving a number of properties of the length spectrum, we show that every topological surface of infinite type admits both an infinite dimensional family of quasiconformally distinct hyperbolic structures having a discrete length spectrum, and an infinite dimensional family of quasiconformally distinct structures with a nondiscrete spectrum. Moreover, there exists such an infinite dimensional subspace arbitrarily close to (in the Fenchel-Nielsen topology) any hyperbolic structure.      

Essential,Weyl and Browder spectra of unbounded upper triangular operator matrices

This paper is concerned with the spectral properties of the unbounded upper triangular operator matrix with diagonal domain. Some sufficient and necessary conditions are given under which the essential spectrum, the Weyl spectrum and the Browder spectrum of such operator matrix, respectively, coincide with the union of the essential spectrum, the Weyl spectrum and the Browder spectrum of its diagonal entries.     

A discrete “three-particle” Schrödinger operator in the Hubbard model

In the space L ₂(T ^ν ×T ^ν ), where T ^ν is a ν-dimensional torus, we study the spectral properties of the “three-particle” discrete Schrödinger operator ? = H₀ + H₁ + H₂, where H₀ is the operator of multiplication by a function and H₁ and H₂ are partial integral operators. We prove several theorems concerning the essential spectrum of ?. We study the discrete and essential spectra of the Hamiltonians H^t and h arising in the Hubbard model on the three-dimensional lattice.     

On the eigenvalues of a class of saddle point matrices

We study spectral properties of a class of block 2 × 2 matrices that arise in the solution of saddle point problems. These matrices are obtained by a sign change in the second block equation of the symmetric saddle point linear system. We give conditions for having a (positive) real spectrum and for ensuring diagonalizability of the matrix. In particular, we show that these properties hold for the discrete Stokes operator, and we discuss the implications of our characterization for augmented Lagrangian formulations, for Krylov subspace solvers and for certain types of preconditioners. The work of this author was supported in part by the National Science Foundation grant DMS-0207599 Revision dated 5 December 2005.     

Hardy inequality and asymptotic eigenvalue distribution for discrete Laplacians

In this paper we study in detail some spectral properties of the magnetic discrete Laplacian. We identify its form-domain, characterize the absence of essential spectrum and provide the asymptotic eigenvalue distribution.     

离散广义系统的平稳振荡

为了研究离散广义系统的平稳振荡，本文利用广义Ｌｙａｐｕｎｏｖ函数方法，给出了一个ｍ周期解存在的充要条件，得出了离散广义系统的周期解的存在性、唯一性、稳定性的有关定理，进而研究具有某种分解的复杂离散广义系统的平稳振荡问题，方法简单易行．