The Friedrichs Extension of Elliptic Operators with Conditions on Submanifolds of Arbitrary Dimension

Abstract

We describe the Friedrichs extension of elliptic symmetric pseudodifferential operators on a closed smooth manifold with the domain consisting of functions vanishing on a given submanifold. In summary, the Friedrichs extension is an elliptic Sobolev problem defined in terms of boundary and coboundary operators, and the number of boundary and coboundary conditions in the problem depends on the order of the operator and the codimension of the submanifold. In this paper, the discreteness of the spectrum is proved, and singularities of eigenfunctions are described.

Keywords

• Friedrichs extension
• Sobolev problems
• boundary conditions on submanifolds