Boundary quasi-orthogonality and sharp inclusion bounds for large Dirichlet eigenvalues

Details Boundary quasi-orthogonality and sharp inclusion bounds for large Dirichlet eigenvalues Boundary quasi-orthogonality and sharp inclusion bounds for large Dirichlet eigenvalues

2010-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/1006.3592v1

Mathematics

Analysis of PDEs

18 pages, 3 figures

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We study eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the Dirichlet Laplacian on a bounded domain $\Omega\subset\RR^n$ with piecewise smooth boundary. We bound the distance between an arbitrary parameter $E > 0$ and the spectrum $\{E_j \}$ in terms of the boundary $L^2$-norm of a normalized trial solution $u$ of the Helmholtz equation $(\Delta + E)u = 0$. We also bound the $L^2$-norm of the error of this trial solution from an eigenfunction. Both of these results are sharp up to constants, hold for all $E$ greater than a small constant, and improve upon the best-known bounds of Moler--Payne by a factor of the wavenumber $\sqrt{E}$. One application is to the solution of eigenvalue problems at high frequency, via, for example, the method of particular solutions. In the case of planar, strictly star-shaped domains we give an inclusion bound where the constant is also sharp. We give explicit constants in the theorems, and show a numerical example where an eigenvalue around the 2500th is computed to 14 digits of relative accuracy. The proof makes use of a new quasi-orthogonality property of the boundary normal derivatives of the eigenmodes, of interest in its own right.

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