Boundary value problems, Weyl functions, and differential operators /

"A comprehensive survey of modern operator techniques for boundary value problems and spectral theory, employing abstract boundary mappings and Weyl functions."--Back cover.

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Main Authors: Behrndt, Jussi (Author), Hassi, Seppo (Author), Snoo, Henk de (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, Springer, [2020]
Series:Monographs in mathematics ; v. 108.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Linear Relations in Hilbert Spaces
  • Elementary facts about linear relations
  • Spectra, resolvent sets, and points of regular type
  • Adjoint relations
  • Symmetric relations
  • Self-adjoint relations
  • Maximal dissipative and accumulative relations
  • Intermediate extensions and von Neumann's formulas
  • Adjoint relations and indefinite inner products
  • Convergence of sequences of relations
  • Parametric representations for relations
  • Resolvent operators with respect to a bounded operator
  • Nevanlinna families and their representations
  • Boundary Triplets and Weyl Functions
  • Boundary triplets
  • Boundary value problems
  • Associated ...-fields and Weyl functions
  • Existence and construction of boundary triplets
  • Transformations of boundary triplets
  • Kreĭn's formula for intermediate extensions
  • Kreĭn's formula for exit space extensions
  • Perturbation problems
  • Spectra, Simple Operators, and Weyl Functions
  • Analytic descriptions of minimal supports of Borel measures
  • Growth points of finite Borel measures
  • Spectra of self-adjoint relations
  • Simple symmetric operators
  • Eigenvalues and eigenspaces
  • Spectra and local minimality
  • Limit properties of Weyl functions
  • Spectra and local minimality for self-adjoint extensions
  • Operator Models for Nevanlinna Functions
  • Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces
  • Realization of uniformly strict Nevanlinna functions
  • Realization of scalar Nevanlinna functions via L²-space models
  • Realization of Nevanlinna pairs and generalized resolvents
  • Kreĭn's formula for exit space extensions
  • Orthogonal coupling of boundary triplets
  • Boundary Triplets and Boundary Pairs for Semibounded Relations
  • Closed semibounded forms and their representations
  • Ordering and monotonicity
  • Friedrichs extensions of semibounded relations
  • Semibounded self-adjoint extensions and their lower bounds
  • Boundary triplets for semibounded relations
  • Boundary pairs and boundary triplets
  • Sturm-Liouville Operators
  • Sturm-Liouville differential expressions
  • Maximal and minimal Sturm-Liouville differential operators
  • Regular and limit-circle endpoints
  • The case of one limit-point endpoint
  • The case of two limit-point endpoints and interface conditions
  • Exit space extensions
  • Weyl functions and subordinate solutions
  • Semibounded Sturm-Liouville expressions in the regular case
  • Closed semibounded forms for Sturm-Liouville equations
  • Principal and nonprincipal solutions of Sturm-Liouville equations
  • Semibounded Sturm-Liouville operators and the limit-circle case
  • Semibounded Sturm-Liouville operators and the limit-point case
  • Integrable potentials
  • Canonical Systems of Differential Equations
  • Classes of integrable functions
  • Canonical systems of differential equations
  • Regular and quasiregular endpoints
  • Square-integrability of solutions of real canonical systems
  • Definite canonical systems
  • Maximal and minimal relations for canonical systems
  • Boundary triplets for the limit-circle case
  • Boundary triplets for the limit-point case
  • Weyl functions and subordinate solutions
  • Special classes of canonical systems
  • Schrodinger Operators on Bounded Domains
  • Rigged Hilbert spaces
  • Sobolev spaces, C²-domains, and trace operators
  • Trace maps for the maximal Schrödinger operator
  • A boundary triplet for the maximal Schrödinger operator
  • Semibounded Schrödinger operators
  • Coupling of Schrödinger operators
  • Bounded Lipschitz domains
  • Integral Representations of Nevanlinna Functions
  • Borel transforms and their Stieltjes inversion
  • Scalar Nevanlinna functions
  • Operator-valued integrals
  • Operator-valued Nevanlinna functions
  • Kac functions
  • Stieltjes and inverse Stieltjes functions
  • Self-adjoint Operators and Fourier Transforms
  • The scalar case
  • The vector case
  • Sums of Closed Subspaces in Hilbert Spaces
  • Factorization of Bounded Linear Operators
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • List of Symbols
  • Index.