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On the essential spectrum of self-adjoint operators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

B. J. Harris
B. J. Harris
Affiliation:
University College, Cardiff
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Synopsis

We provide estimates of the form

for the length of gap centre μ in the essential spectrum of a self-adjoint operator generated by a matrix differential expression.

Type
Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 86 , Issue 3-4 , 1980 , pp. 261 - 274
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1980

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