内容简介
Thisbookisanintroductiontothetheoryofpartialdifferentialoperators.Itassumesthatthereaderhasaknowledgeofintroductoryfunctionalanalysis,uptothespectraltheoremforboundedlinearoperatorsonBanachspaces.However,itdescribesthetheoryofFouriertransformsanddistributionsasfarasisneededtoanalysethespectrumofanyconstantcoefficientpartialdifferentialoperator.Acompletelynewproofofthespectraltheoremforunboundedself-adjointoperatorsisfollowedbyitsapplicationtoavarietyofsecond-orderellipticdifferentialoperators,fromthosewithdiscretespectrumtoSchrödingeroperatorsactingonL2(RN).Thebookcontainsadetailedaccountoftheapplicationofvariationalmethodstoestimatetheeigenvaluesofoperatorswithmeasurablecoefficientsdefinedbytheuseofquadraticformtechniques.Thisbookcouldbeusedeitherforself-studyorasacoursetext,andaimstoleadthereadertothemoreadvancedliteratureonthesubject.