Spectral properties of the resolvent difference for singularly perturbed operators

Abstract

We obtain order sharp spectral estimates for the difference of resolvents of singularly perturbed elliptic operators $\mathbf{A}+\mathbf{V}_1$ and $\mathbf{A}+\mathbf{V}_2$ in a domain $\Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}^\mathbf{N}$ with perturbations $\mathbf{V}_1, \mathbf{V}_2$ generated by $V_1\mu,V_2\mu,$ where $\mu$ is a measure singular with respect to the Lebesgue measure and satisfying two-sided or one-sided conditions of Ahlfors type, while $V_1,V_2$ are weight functions subject to some integral conditions. As an important special case, spectral estimates for the difference of resolvents of two Robin realizations of the operator $\mathbf{A}$ with different weight functions are obtained. For the case when the support of the measure is a compact Lipschitz hypersurface in $\Omega$ or, more generally, a rectifiable set of Hau{\ss}dorff dimension $d=\mathbf{N}-1$, the Weyl type asymptotics for eigenvalues is justified.