Calculus for parametric boundary problems with global projection conditions

Abstract: A pseudodifferential calculus for parameter-dependent operators on smooth manifolds with boundary in the spirit of Boutet de Monvel's algebra is constructed. The calculus contains, in particular, the resolvents of realizations of differential operators subject to global projection boundary conditions (spectral boundary conditions are a particular example); resolvent trace asymptotics are easily derived. The calculus is related to but different from the calculi developed by Grubb and Grubb-Seeley. We use ideas from the theory of pseudodifferential operators on manifolds with edges due to Schulze, in particular the concept of operator-valued symbols twisted by a group-action. Parameter-ellipticity in the calculus is characterized by the invertibility of three principal symbols: the homogeneous principal symbol, the principal boundary symbol, and the so-called principal limit symbol. The principal boundary symbol has, in general, a singularity in the co-variable/parameter space, the principal limit symbol is a new ingredient of our calculus.