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\n In modeling quantum systems or wave phenomena, one is often interested in identifying eigenstates that approximately carry a specified property; scattering states approximately align with incoming and outgoing traveling waves, for instance, and electron states in molecules often approximately align with superpositions of simple atomic orbitals. These examples\u2014and many others\u2014can be formulated as the following eigenproblem: given a self-adjoint operator\n \n \n \n \n L<\/mml:mi>\n <\/mml:mrow>\n \\mathcal {L}<\/mml:annotation>\n <\/mml:semantics>\n <\/mml:math>\n <\/inline-formula>\n on a Hilbert space\n \n \n \n \n H<\/mml:mi>\n <\/mml:mrow>\n \\mathcal {H}<\/mml:annotation>\n <\/mml:semantics>\n <\/mml:math>\n <\/inline-formula>\n and a closed subspace\n \n \n \n \n W<\/mml:mi>\n \n \u2282\n \n <\/mml:mo>\n \n H<\/mml:mi>\n <\/mml:mrow>\n <\/mml:mrow>\n W\\subset \\mathcal {H}<\/mml:annotation>\n <\/mml:semantics>\n <\/mml:math>\n <\/inline-formula>\n , can we identify all eigenvectors of\n \n \n \n \n L<\/mml:mi>\n <\/mml:mrow>\n \\mathcal {L}<\/mml:annotation>\n <\/mml:semantics>\n <\/mml:math>\n <\/inline-formula>\n that lie approximately in\n \n \n \n W<\/mml:mi>\n W<\/mml:annotation>\n <\/mml:semantics>\n <\/mml:math>\n <\/inline-formula>\n ?\n <\/p>\n

\n We develop an approach to answer this question efficiently, with a user-defined tolerance and range of eigenvalues, building upon recent work for spatial localization in diffusion operators (see J. S. Ovall and R. Reid [Math. Comp.\n 92<\/bold>\n (2023), pp.\u00a01005\u20131031]). Namely, by perturbing\n \n \n \n \n L<\/mml:mi>\n <\/mml:mrow>\n \\mathcal {L}<\/mml:annotation>\n <\/mml:semantics>\n <\/mml:math>\n <\/inline-formula>\n appropriately along the subspace\n \n \n \n W<\/mml:mi>\n W<\/mml:annotation>\n <\/mml:semantics>\n <\/mml:math>\n <\/inline-formula>\n , we collect the eigenvectors near\n \n \n \n W<\/mml:mi>\n W<\/mml:annotation>\n <\/mml:semantics>\n <\/mml:math>\n <\/inline-formula>\n into a well-isolated region of the spectrum, which can then be explored using any of several existing methods. We prove key bounds on perturbations of both eigenvalues and eigenvectors, showing that our algorithm correctly identifies desired eigenpairs, and we support our results with several numerical examples.\n <\/p>","DOI":"10.1090\/mcom\/4101","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,15]],"date-time":"2026-04-15T21:48:39Z","timestamp":1776289719000},"page":"2387-2408","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Detecting eigenvectors of an operator that are near a specified subspace"],"prefix":"10.1090","volume":"95","author":[{"given":"David","family":"Darrow","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jeffrey","family":"Ovall","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"14","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,23]]},"reference":[{"issue":"3","key":"1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"A1770--A1787","DOI":"10.1137\/15M102455X","article-title":"Fast, adaptive, high-order accurate discretization of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation in two dimensions","volume":"38","author":"Ambikasaran, Sivaram","year":"2016","journal-title":"SIAM J. 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