Isospectral operators

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Abstract: For a large class of integral operators or second order differential operators, their isospectral (or cospectral) operators are constructed explicitly in terms of h-transform (duality). This provides us a simple way to extend the known knowledge on the spectrum (or the estimation of the principal eigenvalue) from a smaller class of operators to a much larger one. In particular, an open problem about the positivity of the principal eigenvalue for birth--death processes is solved in the paper.


The authors identify isospectral operators within the classes of integral operators for Markov pure jump processes and elliptic second-order differential operators. Particular examples are given, and conclusions on the positivity of the principal eigenvalue for birth-death processes are obtained.











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