Stability of the essential spectrum for 2D‐transport models with Maxwell boundary conditions

We discuss the spectral properties of collisional semigroups associated to various models from transport theory by exploiting the links between the so‐called resolvent approach and the semigroup approach. Precisely, we show that the essential spectrum of the full transport semigroup coincides with that of the collisionless transport semigroup in any L^p‐spaces (1 <p < ∞) for three 2D‐transport models with Maxwell‐boundary conditions. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.