Stability of solutions of the operator differential equation in transport theory (Q1070507)

In this paper stability is studied of bounded solutions of the operator differential equation \[ (*)\quad (T\psi (x))'=-(I-B)\psi (X),\quad x>0, \] with certain boundary conditions, under perturbations of B in the norm topology. Here T is a bounded selfadjoint operator with zero kernel, and B is a compact selfadjoint operator with eigenvalues not exceeding 1. An example of such equation is the transport equation which appears in astrophysics and neutron physics. It is proved that a bounded solution of (*) is stable provided it is unique. As a particular case of this stability result a mathematical justification of the cutting of Legendre series (a procedure used by physicists to calculate solutions of the transport equation) is obtained. Some errors are corrected in ibid. 8, page 894.