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Rayleigh principle for linear Hamiltonian systems withoutcontrollability∗

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2011

Werner Kratz  and
Roman Šimon Hilscher
Werner Kratz
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Analysis, Faculty of Mathematics and Economics, University of Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany. werner.kratz@uni-ulm.de
Roman Šimon Hilscher
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlářská 2, 61137 Brno, Czech Republic; hilscher@math.muni.cz
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Abstract

In this paper we consider linear Hamiltonian differential systems without thecontrollability (or normality) assumption. We prove the Rayleigh principle for thesesystems with Dirichlet boundary conditions, which provides a variational characterizationof the finite eigenvalues of the associated self-adjoint eigenvalue problem. This resultgeneralizes the traditional Rayleigh principle to possibly abnormal linear Hamiltoniansystems. The main tools are the extended Picone formula, which is proven here for thisgeneral setting, results on piecewise constant kernels for conjoined bases of theHamiltonian system, and the oscillation theorem relating the number of proper focal pointsof conjoined bases with the number of finite eigenvalues. As applications we obtain theexpansion theorem in the space of admissible functions without controllability and aresult on coercivity of the corresponding quadratic functional.

Keywords

Linear Hamiltonian systemRayleigh principleself-adjoint eigenvalue problemproper focal pointconjoined basisfinite eigenvalueoscillation theoremcontrollabilitynormalityquadratic functional

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ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , April 2012 , pp. 501 - 519
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2011

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