Spectral properties of the neutron transport equation (Q1059815)

The paper is essentially dedicated to the proof of some technical propositions concerning the spectrum of the integrodifferential neutron transport equation. The underlying assumptions, which in some previous works were more oriented to physics subject to unnecessary restrictions, are relaxed as much as possible, in order to obtain a deeper insight of e.g. such topics as the ''Corngold limit'' and the related spectral bounds. A large part of the paper is devoted, following the Jörgens-Vidav approach, to a proof of compactness (or weak compactness) of the second order remainder of the Dyson-Phillips expansion of the evolution semigroup, which provides a means for determining the regions of the spectral plane occupied by the essential or by the discrete part of the spectrum.