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The Hardy–Rellich inequality for polyharmonic operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Mark P. Owen
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK ([email protected])

Extract

The Hardy-Rellich inequality given here generalizes a Hardy inequality of Davies, from the case of the Dirichlet Laplacian of a region Ω ⊆ N to that of the higher-order polyharmonic operators with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The inequality yields some immediate spectral information for the polyharmonic operators and also bounds on the trace of the associated semigroups and resolvents.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1999

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