On graph measures in banach spaces and description of essential spectra of multidimensional transport equation

In this paper, we define new measures called respectively graph measure of noncompactness and graph measure of weak noncompactness. Moreover, we apply the obtained results to discuss the incidence of some perturbation results realized in [2] on the behavior of essential spectra of such closed densely defined linear operators on Banach spaces. These results are exploited to investigate the essential spectra of a multidimensional neutron transport operator on L₁ spaces.     

Spectral Analysis of a Transport Operator Arising in Growing Cell Populations

The present paper is concerned with the spectral analysis of a transport-like operator derived from a model introduced by Rotenberg describing the growth of a cell population. Each cell of this population is distinguished by its degree of maturity μ and its maturation velocity v. The biological boundaries of μ = 0 and μ = a (a > 0) are fixed and tightly coupled through mitosis. At mitosis daughter cells and mother cells are related by a general reproduction rule which covers all known biological ones. We first discuss in detail the spectrum of the streaming operator for smooth and partly smooth boundary conditions. Next, we discuss the existence and nonexistence of eigenvalues of the transport operator in the half plane {λ ∈ ℂ : Reλ > where denotes the spectral bound of the streaming operator. In particular, the strict monotonicity of the leading eigenvalue (when it exists) of the transport operator with respect to different parameters of the equation is also considered. We close the paper by describing in detail the various essential spectra of the transport operator for wide classes of collision and boundary operators.     

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

In this paper, we investigate the essential approximate point spectrum and the essential defect spectrum of a 2 × 2 block operator matrix on a Banach space. Furthermore, we apply the obtained results to two-group transport operators in the Banach space L _p ([−a, a] × [−1, 1]) × L _p ([−a, a] × [−1, 1]), a > 0, p ≥ 1.     

Descent relations and the oscillator level-truncation method

We reexamine the oscillator level-truncation method in the bosonic string field theory by calculating the descent relation . We use the fermionic vertices in the standard oscillator basis for the ghost sector. We propose two new calculation schemes: in the first, we assume that the insertion satisfies the overlap equation for the vertices; in the second, we use direct calculations. In both schemes, we obtain the correct structures of the exponent and preexponent of the vertex 〈V₂|, but we find different normalization factors . __________ Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 150, No. 1, pp. 5–25, January, 2007.