Topological Sensitivity Analysis for High Order Elliptic Operators

Control and Cybernetics Topological Sensitivity Analysis for Elliptic Problems on Graphs * †

Abstract: We consider elliptic problems on graphs under given loads and bilateral contact conditions. We ask the question: which graph is best suited to sustain the loads and the constraints. More precisely, given a cost function we may look at a multiple node of the graph with edge degree q and ask as to whether that node should be resolved into a number of nodes of edge degree less than q, in...

Notes on the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem

This is arguably one of the deepest and most beautiful results in modern geometry, and in my view is a must know for any geometer/topologist. It has to do with elliptic partial differential operators on a compact manifold, namely those operators P with the property that dim ker P, dim coker P < ∞. In general these integers are very difficult to compute without some very precise information abou...

On the Spectral Properties of Degenerate Non-selfadjoint Elliptic systems of Differential Operators

The spectral properties of differential operators with matrix coefficients on elliptic systems with boundary conditions

Let $$(Lv)(t)=sum^{n} _{i,j=1} (-1)^{j} d_{j} left( s^{2alpha}(t) b_{ij}(t) mu(t) d_{i}v(t)right),$$ be a non-selfadjoint differential operator on the Hilbert space $L_{2}(Omega)$ with Dirichlet-type boundary conditions. In continuing of papers [10-12], let the conditions made on the operator $ L$ be sufficiently more general than [11] and [12] as defined in Section $1$. In this paper, we estim...

Using Self-adjoint Extensions in Shape Optimization

Self-adjoint extensions of elliptic operators are used to model the solution of a partial differential equation defined in a singularly perturbed domain. The asymptotic expansion of the solution of a Laplacian with respect to a small parameter ε is first performed in a domain perturbed by the creation of a small hole. The resulting singular perturbation is approximated by choosing an appropriat...