Special Session 80: Functional inequalities and PDEs

Generic simplicity for self-adjoint operators under bounded potential perturbations
Gerassimos Barbatis
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Greece
Co-Author(s):    Marianna Chatzakou, Achilles Tertikas
Abstract:
We will discuss the generic simplicity of the spectrum of self-adjoint operators under bounded potential perturbations. More precisely, given a semibounded self-adjoint operator with compact resolvent and a suitable space of real-valued bounded perturbations, we will analyse whether all eigenvalues of the perturbed operator are simple for a generic choice of the potential. We will also discuss several geometric and analytic settings, including sub-Laplacians and maximally hypoelliptic operators on compact manifolds, Laplacians on bounded domains with different boundary conditions, and Schrödinger-type operators on non-compact spaces.\ The talk is based on a joint work with Bernard Helffer.