Spectral behaviour of a simple non-self-adjoint operator

DOI10.1016/S0022-0396(02)00003-7MaRDI QIDQ6470945arXivFDO

Publication date 21 February 2001

General spectral theory of ordinary differential operators (34L05) Particular ordinary differential operators (Dirac, one-dimensional Schrödinger, etc.) (34L40) General theory of ordinary differential operators (47E05)

Abstract: We investigate the spectrum of a typical non-self-adjoint differential operator

A D = - d^{2} / d x^{2} o t i m e s A

acting on

L p (0, 1) o t i m e s m a t h b b C^{2}

, where

A

is a

2 i m e s 2

constant matrix. We impose Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions in the first and second coordinate respectively at both ends of

[0, 1] s u b s e t m a t h b b R

. For

A i n m a t h b b R^{2 i m e s 2}

we explore in detail the connection between the entries of

A

and the spectrum of

A D

, we find necessary conditions to ensure similarity to a self-adjoint operator and give numerical evidence that suggests a non-trivial spectral evolution.

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