PT -symmetric waveguides

Integral Equations and Operator Theory

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 489-515

  Borisov, Denis ^a   Krejčiřík, David ^b  

^a BASHKIR STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b NUCLEAR PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Eigenvalue and eigenfunction asymptotics; Essential spectrum; J self adjointness; Non self adjointness; PT symmetry; Reality of the spectrum; Robin boundary conditions; Robin Laplacian; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149125411     PISSN: 0378620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00020-008-1634-1     Document Type: Article

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