Two-term spectral asymptotics for the Dirichlet Laplacian and its fractional powers

Series
Math Physics Seminar
Time
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 4:30pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Leander Geisinger – University of Stuttgart
Organizer
Michael Loss
We study the sum of the negative eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplace operatoron a bounded domain in the semiclassical limit. We give a new proof thatyields not only the Weyl term but also the second asymptotic term involvingthe surface area of the boundary of the domain.The proof is valid under weak smoothness assumptions on the boundary and theresult can be extended to non-local, non-smooth operators like fractionalpowers of the Dirichlet Laplacian.(This is joint work with Rupert L. Frank.)