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On the location of eigenvalues of second order linear differential operators*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Ian Knowles
Ian Knowles
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand and Department of Mathematics, University of Dundee
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Synopsis

This paper is concerned with finding upper bounds on the set of eigenvalues of self-adjoint differential operators generated in the Hilbert space L2[0, ∞) by the differential expression

on [0,∞), together with a real homogeneous boundary condition at t = 0.

Type
Research Article
Information
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 80 , Issue 1-2 , 1978 , pp. 15 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1978

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