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This paper investigates the limit of the principal eigenvalue $\lambda(s)$ as $s\to+\infty$ for the following elliptic equation \begin{align*} -\Delta\varphi(x)-2s\mathbf{v}\cdot\nabla\varphi(x)+c(x)\varphi(x)=\lambda(s)\varphi(x), \quad…

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