Variational principles for symmetric bilinear forms

被引:8
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作者
Danciger, Jeffrey [2 ]
Garcia, Stephan Ramon [1 ]
Putinar, Mihai [3 ]
机构
[1] Pomona Coll, Dept Math, Claremont, CA 91711 USA
[2] Stanford Univ, Dept Math, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[3] Univ Calif Santa Barbara, Dept Math, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA
关键词
symmetric bilinear form; Friedrichs operator; singular values; compact operator; compressed Toeplitz operator; Courant principle; minimax theorem;
D O I
10.1002/mana.200510641
中图分类号
O1 [数学];
学科分类号
0701 ; 070101 ;
摘要
Every compact symmetric bilinear form B on a complex Hilbert space produces, via an antilinear representing operator, a real spectrum consisting of a sequence decreasing to zero. We show that the most natural analog of Courant's minimax principle for B detects only the evenly indexed eigenvalues in this spectrum. We explain this phenomenon, analyze the extremal objects, and apply this general framework to the Friedrichs operator of a planar domain and to Toeplitz operators and their compressions. (C) 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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页码:786 / 802
页数:17
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