On a characterization of the essential spectra of some matrix operators and application to two-group transport operators (Q2391114)

The authors study the essential approximate point spectrum and the essential defect spectrum of a \(2\times 2\) block operator matrix formed by unbounded operators between Banach spaces. Main results are equalities or inclusions involving various spectra and resolvent sets of entries of the block operator matrix. The obtained results are applied to a class of transport equations on \(L^p([-a,a]\times [-1,1])\), where \(1\leq p<\infty\) and \(a>0\).