On a class of non-self-adjoint periodic eigenproblems with boundary and interior singularities

Journal of Differential Equations

Volumn 249, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3081-3098

  Boulton, Lyonell ^a   Levitin, Michael ^b   Marletta, Marco ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Non Hermitian Hamiltonians; Non self adjoint; PT symmetry; Sturm Liouville operators

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049273256     PISSN: 00220396     EISSN: 10902732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jde.2010.08.010     Document Type: Article

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