Boundary Quasi-Orthogonality and Sharp Inclusion Bounds for Large Dirichlet Eigenvalues
Boundary Quasi-Orthogonality and Sharp Inclusion Bounds for Large Dirichlet Eigenvalues
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大狄利克雷特征值的边界准正交性和锐包含界
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发表时间:
2010
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2.9
通讯作者:
Andrew Hassell
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作者:
A. Barnett;Andrew Hassell
We study eigenfunctions $phi_j$ and eigenvalues $E_j$ of the Dirichlet Laplacian on a bounded domain $Omegasubsetmathbb{R}^n$ with piecewise smooth boundary. We bound the distance between an arbitrary parameter $E>0$ and the spectrum ${E_j}$ in terms of the boundary $L^2$-norm of a normalized trial solution $u$ of the Helmholtz equation $(Delta+E)u=0$. We also bound the $L^2$-norm of the error of this trial solution from an eigenfunction. Both of these results are sharp up to constants, hold for all $E$ greater than a small constant, and improve upon the best-known bounds of Moler-Payne by a factor of the wavenumber $sqrt{E}$. One application is to the solution of eigenvalue problems at high frequency, via, for example, the method of particular solutions. In the case of planar, strictly star-shaped domains we give an inclusion bound where the constant is also sharp. We give explicit constants in the theorems, and show a numerical example where an eigenvalue around the 2500th is computed to 14 digits of relative accuracy. The proof makes use of a new quasi-orthogonality property of the boundary normal derivatives of the eigenmodes (Theorem 1.3), of interest in its own right. Namely, the operator norm of the sum of rank 1 operators $partial_nphi_jlanglepartial_nphi_j,cdot
angle$ over all $E_j$ in a spectral window of width $sqrt{E}$—a sum with about $E^{(n-1)/2}$ terms—is at most a constant factor (independent of $E$) larger than the operator norm of any one individual term.