Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to obtain lower bounds for the minimal eigenvalue of the Sturm–Liouville differential operator on a graph. In this way, an analog of the Picone identity for an equation on a network is established. As an application of such an identity, Sturm comparison theorems and properties of differential inequalities for a second-order operator on a graph are obtained.
Keywords:
eigenvalue estimation, spectral problem on a graph, Sturm theorems, Picone
identity.
Citation:
S. A. Karkuzaev, R. Ch. Kulaev, “Lower bounds for the leading eigenvalue of the Laplacian on a graph”, Mat. Zametki, 117:2 (2025), 270–284; Math. Notes, 117:2 (2025), 287–299