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THE ROTATION NUMBER APPROACH TO EIGENVALUES OF THE ONE-DIMENSIONAL p-LAPLACIAN WITH PERIODIC POTENTIALS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2001

MEIRONG ZHANG
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; mzhang@math.tsinghua.edu.cn
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Abstract

The paper studies the periodic and anti-periodic eigenvalues of the one-dimensional p-Laplacian with a periodic potential. After a rotation number function ρ(λ) has been introduced, it is proved that for any non-negative integer n, the endpoints of the interval ρ−1(n/2) in ℝ yield the corresponding periodic or anti-periodic eigenvalues. However, as in the Dirichlet problem of the higher dimensional p-Laplacian, it remains open if these eigenvalues represent all periodic and anti-periodic eigenvalues. The result obtained is a partial generalization of the spectrum theory of the one-dimensional Schrödinger operators with periodic potentials.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
The London Mathematical Society 2001

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