TY - JOUR A1 - Dines, Nicoleta A1 - Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang T1 - Mellin-edge representations of elliptic operators N2 - We construct a class of elliptic operators in the edge algebra on a manifold M with an embedded submanifold Y interpreted as an edge. The ellipticity refers to a principal symbolic structure consisting of the standard interior symbol and an operator-valued edge symbol. Given a differential operator A on M for every (sufficiently large) s we construct an associated operator A(s) in the edge calculus. We show that ellipticity of A in the usual sense entails ellipticity of A(s) as an edge operator (up to a discrete set of reals s). Parametrices P of A then correspond to parametrices P-s of A(s) interpreted as Mellin-edge representations of P. Copyright (c) 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Y1 - 2005 SN - 0170-4214 ER -