The Krein-von Neumann Extension and its Connection to an Abstract Buckling Problem

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2009-07-09

arxiv.org/abs/0907.1439v2

Math. Nachr. 283:2, 165-179 (2010)

Mathematics

Spectral Theory

16 pages

Scientific paper

10.1002/mana.200910067

We prove the unitary equivalence of the inverse of the Krein--von Neumann extension (on the orthogonal complement of its kernel) of a densely defined, closed, strictly positive operator, $S\geq \epsilon I_{\mathcal{H}}$ for some $\epsilon >0$ in a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$ to an abstract buckling problem operator. In the concrete case where $S=\bar{-\Delta|_{C_0^\infty(\Omega)}}$ in $L^2(\Omega; d^n x)$ for $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ an open, bounded (and sufficiently regular) domain, this recovers, as a particular case of a general result due to G. Grubb, that the eigenvalue problem for the Krein Laplacian $S_K$ (i.e., the Krein--von Neumann extension of $S$), \[ S_K v = \lambda v, \quad \lambda \neq 0, \] is in one-to-one correspondence with the problem of {\em the buckling of a clamped plate}, \[ (-\Delta)^2u=\lambda (-\Delta) u \text{in} \Omega, \quad \lambda \neq 0, \quad u\in H_0^2(\Omega), \] where $u$ and $v$ are related via the pair of formulas \[ u = S_F^{-1} (-\Delta) v, \quad v = \lambda^{-1}(-\Delta) u, \] with $S_F$ the Friedrichs extension of $S$. This establishes the Krein extension as a natural object in elasticity theory (in analogy to the Friedrichs extension, which found natural applications in quantum mechanics, elasticity, etc.).

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