Rayleigh Quotient and Surjectivity of Nonlinear Operators in Hilbert space

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Raffaele Chiappinelli*

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We consider continuous operators acting in a real Hilbert space and indicate conditions ensuring their continuous invertibility and/or surjectivity. In the case of bounded linear operators, these facts are well-known from basic Functional Analysis. The objective of this work is to indicate how similar properties can be proved also when the operators are not necessarily linear, using as a main tool their Rayleigh quotient and especially its lower and upper bound. In particular, we focus our attention on gradient operators and show a quantitative criterion that ensures their surjectivity through the positivity of an additional constant related to the measure of noncompactness.

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Chiappinelli, R. (2024). Rayleigh Quotient and Surjectivity of Nonlinear Operators in Hilbert space. Annals of Mathematics and Physics, 7(3), 277–278. https://doi.org/10.17352/amp.000132
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