Mathematics

We consider a Schrödinger operator with complex-valued potentials on the line. The operator has essential spectrum on the half-line plus eigenvalues (counted with algebraic multiplicity) in the complex plane without the positive half-line. We determine series of trace formulas. Here we have the new term: a singular measure, which is absent for real potentials. Moreover, we estimate of sum of Im part of eigenvalues plus singular measure in terms of the norm of potentials. The proof is based on classical results about the Hardy spaces.

We investigate the Schrödinger operators H ε =−Δ+W+ V ε in R 2 with the short-range potentials V ε which are localized around a smooth closed curve γ . The operators H ε can be viewed as an approximation of the heuristic Hamiltonian H=−Δ+W+a ∂ ν δ γ +b δ γ , where δ γ is Dirac's δ -function supported on γ and ∂ ν δ γ is its normal derivative on γ . Assuming that the operator −Δ+W has only discrete spectrum, we analyze the asymptotic behaviour of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of H ε . The transmission conditions on γ for the eigenfunctions u + =α u − , α ∂ ν u + − ∂ ν u − =β u − , which arise in the limit as ε→0 , reveal a nontrivial connection between spectral properties of H ε and the geometry of γ .

Given a graph with a designated set of boundary vertices, we define a new notion of a Neumann Laplace operator on a graph using a reflection principle. We show that the first eigenvalue of this Neumann graph Laplacian satisfies a Cheeger inequality.

In this paper we give a multi-scale analysis proof of \textit{power-law} localization for random operators on ${\Z}^d$ for \textit{arbitrary} d≥1 .

It is well known from the Perron-Frobenius theory that the spectral gap of a positive square matrix is positive. In this paper, we give a more quantitative characterization of the spectral gap. More specifically, using a complex extension of the Hilbert metric, we show that the so-called spectral ratio of a positive square matrix is upper bounded by its Birkhoff contraction coefficient, which in turn yields a lower bound on its spectral gap.

In this paper, we show that for all triangles in the plane, the equilateral triangle maximizes the ratio of the first two Dirichlet-Laplacian eigenvalues. This is an extension of work by Siudeja, who proved the inequality in the case of acute triangles. The proof utilizes inequalities due to Siudeja and Freitas, together with improved variational bounds.

Analytic perturbation theory for matrices and operators is an immensely useful mathematical technique. Most elementary introductions to this method have their background in the physics literature, and quantum mechanics in particular. In this note, we give an introduction to this method that is independent of any physics notions, and relies purely on concepts from linear algebra. An additional feature of this presentation is that matrix notation and methods are used throughout. In particular, we formulate the equations for each term of the analytic expansions of eigenvalues and eigenvectors as {\em matrix equations}, namely Sylvester equations in particular. Solvability conditions and explicit expressions for solutions of such matrix equations are given, and expressions for each term in the analytic expansions are given in terms of those solutions. This unified treatment simplifies somewhat the complex notation that is commonly seen in the literature, and in particular, provides relatively compact expressions for the non-Hermitian and degenerate cases, as well as for higher order terms.

We extend to the infinite dimensional context the link between two completely different topics recently highlighted by the authors: the classical eigenvalue problem for real square matrices and the Brouwer degree for maps between oriented finite dimensional real manifolds. Thanks to this extension, we solve a conjecture regarding global continuation in nonlinear spectral theory that we have formulated in a recent article. Our result (the ex conjecture) is applied to prove a Rabinowitz type global continuation property of the solutions to a perturbed motion equation containing an air resistance frictional force.

In this note we provide an explicit lower bound on the spectral gap of one-dimensional Schrödinger operators with non-negative bounded potentials and subject to Neumann boundary conditions.

A number of recent papers have considered signed graph Laplacians, a generalization of the classical graph Laplacian, where the edge weights are allowed to take either sign. In the classical case, where the edge weights are all positive, the Laplacian is positive semi-definite with the dimension of the kernel representing the number of connected components of the graph. In many applications one is interested in establishing conditions which guarantee the positive semi-definiteness of the matrix. In this paper we present an inequality on the eigenvalues of a weighted graph Laplacian (where the weights need not have any particular sign) in terms of the first two moments of the edge weights. This bound involves the eigenvalues of the equally weighted Laplacian on the graph as well as the eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of the line graph (the edge-to-vertex dual graph). For a regular graph the bound can be expressed entirely in terms of the second eigenvalue of the equally weighted Laplacian, an object that has been extensively studied in connection with expander graphs and spectral measures of graph connectivity. We present several examples including Erdős-Rényi random graphs in the critical and subcritical regimes, random large d -regular graphs, and the complete graph, for which the inequalities here are tight.