EQUATIONS OF ELASTIC HYPERSURFACES
EQUATIONS OF ELASTIC HYPERSURFACES
EQUATIONS OF ELASTIC HYPERSURFACES
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5. BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS: EXAMPLES 155<br />
the operator is Fredholm (cf. e.g., [Ag1]). The spectral set of −V −1 is non-negative (cf.<br />
(5.45)). Thus, we are under the scope of Corollary 2.61.II and −V −1 in (5.39) is strictly<br />
positive, self adjoint and invertible. From Theorem 4.25 follows the invertibility of V −1 in<br />
(5.41) for all −∞ < θ < ∞ and 1 < p < ∞.<br />
There remains to only check the positive definiteness (5.40). Rewrite (5.45) in the form<br />
− (V −1 w, w) Γ<br />
= ∥ ∥ ∇S V S w ∣ ∣ L2 (S ) ∥ ∥ 2 = ∥ ∥ VS w ∣ ∣ H 1 (S ) ∥ ∥ 2 − ∥ ∥ VS w ∣ ∣ L2 (S ) ∥ ∥ 2<br />
≥ ∥ ∥ VS w ∣ ∣ H 1 (S ) ∥ ∥ 2 − C 1<br />
∥ ∥VS w ∣ ∣ H 3/4 (S ) ∥ ∥ 2<br />
≥C 2<br />
∥<br />
∥V−1 w ∣ ∣ H 1/2 (Γ) ∥ ∥ 2 − C 2<br />
∥<br />
∥V−1 w ∣ ∣ H 1/4 (Γ) ∥ ∥ 2<br />
≥C 3<br />
∥ ∥w<br />
∣ ∣H −1/2 (Γ) ∥ ∥ 2 − C 3<br />
∥ ∥w<br />
∣ ∣H −3/4 (Γ) ∥ ∥ 2 (5.46)<br />
since the trace (V S w) −+ = V −1 w and we have applied the theorems on continuous embedding<br />
H 3/4 (S ) ⊂ L 2 (S ) (cf, Theorem 4.17) and Theorem on traces<br />
∥ ∣ ψ<br />
− + H s−1/2 (Γ) ∥ ∥ ∣ ≤ C4∥ψ∣H s (C −+ ) ∥ (cf, Theorem 4.18). At he last step we have applied the double inequality<br />
C 5<br />
∥ ∥w<br />
∣ ∣H θ−1 (Γ) ∥ ∥ ≤<br />
∥<br />
∥V−1 w ∣ ∣ H θ (Γ) ∥ ∥ ≤ C6<br />
∥ ∥w<br />
∣ ∣H θ−1 (Γ) ∥ ∥<br />
which is nothing but the invertibility of V −1 in (5.41) for p = 2.<br />
The embedding E −1<br />
−3/4 1 : H−1 (Γ) → H −3/4 (Γ) is compact (cf. Theorem 4.17) and<br />
inequality (5.46) is interpreted as the coerciveness<br />
− (V −1 w, w) Γ<br />
≥ C 3<br />
∥ ∥w<br />
∣ ∣H −1/2 (Γ) ∥ ∥ 2 − ∥ ∥ T w<br />
∣ ∣H −1 (Γ) ∥ ∥ 2 (5.47)<br />
where T := C 3 E −1<br />
−3/4 is compact. Since V −1 has the trivial kernel Ker V −1 = {0}, due to<br />
Theorem 2.66 the coerciveness (5.47) implies the positive definiteness (5.40).<br />
Theorem 5.12 The operator<br />
−W +1 : H 1/2 (Γ) \ { const } → H −1/2 (Γ) (5.48)<br />
is self adjoint and its kernel is 1-dimensional, consists of constant functions only Ker W +1 =<br />
{<br />
const<br />
}<br />
. This operator is non-negative<br />
−(W +1 w, w) Γ ≥ M‖w ∣ ∣ H 1/2 (Γ)‖ 2 ∀ w ∈ H 1/2 (Γ) \ { const } (5.49)<br />
for some M > 0.<br />
The operator (cf. Corollary 5.8 for the spaces)<br />
W −1<br />
: X θ p(Γ) \ { const } −→ X θ−1<br />
p (Γ) , (5.50)<br />
is invertible for arbitrary θ ∈ R and 1 < p < ∞.