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Convergence of eigenfunctions

In their 1999 paper "Sturm-Liouville operators with singular potentials", Savchuk and Shkalikov prove the uniform resolvent convergence of an operator $L_\varepsilon \rightarrow L$ for $\...
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Given an eigenvalue equation (elliptic PDE) in a ball $B_R$, prove the convergence of the first nonzero $\lambda_R$ and its eigenfunction $\phi_R$

Let $H: \mathbf{R}^n \rightarrow \mathbf{R}$ be a bounded continuous function. Set $$\tag{1} \int_{\mathbf{R}^n}\left\{|\nabla \xi|^2+H(x) \xi^2\right\} \mathrm{d} x \geqslant 0, \quad \forall \xi \in ...
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Measurability of eigenvalues-eigenvectors of a positive compact operator

Let $H$ be a separable Hilbert space over $\mathbb{R}$. Let ${A} = \{a\colon H\to H\,|\,a\text{ is a positive, compact linear operator}\}$. By the spectral theorem, given $a \in A$, there are scalars $...
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Computing the eigenvalues of $A+E$ where $A$ is an upper triangular matrix whose diagonal entries are all zero and $E$ is a rank one matrix

Let us consider the backward-shift matrix $B=(b_{ij})\in M_n(\mathbb{R})$ whose entries are given by $b_{k,k+1}=1$ and the other entries are all 0. We also consider $X=(x_{ij})\in M_n(\mathbb{R})$ ...
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Eigenvectors of the symmetric tridiagonal matrices whose entries above the diagonal are all the same

Let us consider the real symmetric tridiagonal matrix $T=(t_{kl})$ in $M_n(\mathbb{R})$ with $$t_{1,2}=t_{2,3}=\cdots=t_{n-1,n}=1$$ How can we compute the eigenvectors of $T$?
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The eigenvalues of the product $WD$ for some particular matrices

Let $D$ be a diagonal matrix in $M_{2n}(\mathbb{R})$ such that $D^2=I$ and Trace$(D)$=0 Suppose that $e_k$s are the standard vectors in $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$, that is $$e_k=(0,\cdots 0,1,0,\cdots,0)^t$$...
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The spectrum of the product $JA$ where $J=I_n\oplus (-I_n)$

Let $A$ be a real symmetric matrix in $M_{2n}(\mathbb{R})$with $A^2=I_{2n}$. Suppose that the Schur decomposition of $A$ is given by $A=\Lambda^t D \Lambda$. Let us consider the following matrix. $$...
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Finding the eigenvectors of a submatrix

Let $A=(a_{kl})$ be a matrix in $M_n(\mathbb{R})$ when $n$ is even. Let $B=(b_{kl})$ be the symmetric $2n$ by $2n$ matrix whose entries are given by, $b_{k,l}=a_{kl}$ if $1\leq k,l\leq n$. $b_{n+k,l}=...
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Is $A$ is small on bounded functions, is there a large subdomain on which $A$ is small?

Let $A$ be a symmetric linear operator of norm $\leq 1$ on the space of functions $f:S\to \mathbb{R}$, where $S$ is a set with $N$ elements. Define the inner product $\langle \cdot,\cdot\rangle$ by ...
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Common eigenvalues for two Sturm-Liouville problem

Does exist in literature any results concerning the common eigenvalues for the two eigenvalue problems of the form $$y''(x)=\lambda^2 y(x)+\lambda a(x)y(x), \ x\in(0,1), $$$$z''(x)=\lambda^2 z(x)-\...
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Conditions for continuity of non-simple eigenvectors

Here, https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1146455, it is noted that eigenprojections are continuous, but eigenvectors are not. Are there any conditions where the eigenvalues are not simple, but the ...
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Eigenvalue of product of self adjoint compact operators

Suppose A is a self adjoint $m \times m$ real matrix with eigenpairs $\{e_j, \lambda_j\}$ such that $\lambda_j > \lambda_{j + 1}$. Let $B$ be another self adjoint real $m \times m$ matrix such that ...
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Common eigenvector

I have little experience with functional analysis beyond an undergraduate basic course, and I'm dealing with the following problem: let $V$ be an infinite-dimensional locally convex (but not normed!) ...