Journal of the London Mathematical Society Advance Access originally published online on April 3, 2008
Journal of the London Mathematical Society 2008 78(1):65-84; doi:10.1112/jlms/jdm083
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Representations of compact linear operators in Banach spaces and nonlinear eigenvalue problems
School of Mathematics
Cardiff University
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Wales
United Kingdom
DavidEEdmunds@aol.com
pryske@boyns.net
Let X and Y be reflexive Banach spaces with strictly convex duals, and let T be a compact linear map from X to Y. It is shown that a certain nonlinear equation, involving T and its adjoint, has a normalised solution (an eigenvector) corresponding to an eigenvalue, and that the same is true for each member of a countable family of similar equations involving the restrictions of T to certain subspaces of X. The action of T can be described in terms of these eigenvectors. There are applications to the p-Laplacian, the p-biharmonic operator and integral operators of Hardy type.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 47A75, 47B06, 47B40, 35P30.
Received January 11, 2007; revised January 24, 2008; published online April 3, 2008.