Spectral behaviour of a simple non-self-adjoint operator

Lyonell S. Boulton

doi:10.1016/S0022-0396(02)00003-7

Spectral behaviour of a simple non-self-adjoint operator

Lyonell S. Boulton^*

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Abstract

We investigate the spectrum of a typical non-self-adjoint differential operator AD = -d²/dx² ⊗ A acting on L²(0, 1) ⊗ C², where A is a 2 x 2 constant matrix. We impose Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions in the first and second coordinate, respectively, at both ends of [0, 1] ⊂ ℝ. For A ε ℝ^2×2 we explore in detail the connection between the entries of A and the spectrum of AD, we find necessary conditions to ensure similarity to a self-adjoint operator and give numerical evidence that suggests a non-trivial spectral evolution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	186-229
Number of pages	44
Journal	Journal of Differential Equations
Volume	186
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-0396(02)00003-7
Publication status	Published - 20 Nov 2002

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Differential operators
Non-real eigenvalues
Spectral theory of non-self-adjoint operators

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Analysis

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