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An Indefinite Convection-Diffusion Operator

Spectral Theory 2007-05-23 v1 Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We give a mathematically rigorous analysis which confirms the surprising results in a recent paper of Benilov, O'Brien and Sazonov about the spectrum of a highly singular non-self-adjoint operator that arises in a problem in fluid mechanics.

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@article{arxiv.math/0702122,
  title  = {An Indefinite Convection-Diffusion Operator},
  author = {E B Davies},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0702122},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Preprint, 13 pages