Spectral analysis of monoenergetic transport equation with delayed neutrons in slab geometry (Q2175134)

The authors aim at providing a general spectral analysis of the monoenergetic transport with delayed neutrons and general boundary, where an abstract boundary operator relates the incoming and the outgoing fluxes in slab geometry. The goal is to give a fine spectral analysis of the operator \(A_{H}\), which is an \( (N+1) (N+1)\) matrix of linear operators with general boundary conditions in an infinite slab, where the known boundary conditions (vacuum, specular reflections, periodic, diffuse reflections, generalized and mixed type boundary conditions) are special examples. To this end, the authors make precise the functional setting of the problem and recall some facts required in the rest of the work and discuss the asymptotic spectrum of the operator \(A_{H}\). Then the existence or nonexistence of eigenvalues with respect to the size of the domain is investigated. Finally, the problem concerning the strict monotonicity the leading eigenvalue of \(A_{H}\) with respect to the parameters of the equation is considered.