Download or read book Elliptic Boundary Value Problems with Indefinite Weights, Variational Formulations of the Principal Eigenvalue, and Applications written by Fethi Belgacem and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-05-05 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elliptic Boundary Value Problems With Indefinite Weights presents a unified approach to the methodologies dealing with eigenvalue problems involving indefinite weights. The principal eigenvalue for such problems is characterized for various boundary conditions. Such characterizations are used, in particular, to formulate criteria for the persistence and extinctions of populations, and applications of the formulations obtained can be quite extensive.