Estimation of the first eigenvalue of second order elliptic operators

DOI10.1006/jfan.1995.1092zbMath0837.35102OpenAlexW2084592669MaRDI QIDQ1897278

Fengyu Wang, Chen Mu-Fa

Publication date: 27 August 1995

Published in: Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jfan.1995.1092

zbMATH Keywords

lower boundvariational methodfirst eigenvalueanalytic approachcoupling approachsecond-order selfadjoint elliptic operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) General theory of partial differential operators (47F05)

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