Galkowski, J; (2015) Pseudospectra of semiclassical boundary value problems. Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu , 14 (2) pp. 405-449. 10.1017/S1474748014000061.

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Abstract

We consider operators −∆ + X, where X is a constant vector field, in a bounded domain and show spectral instability when the domain is expanded by scaling. More generally, we consider semiclassical elliptic boundary value problems which exhibit spectral instability for small values of the semiclassical parameter h, which should be thought of as the reciprocal of the Peclet constant. This instability is due to the presence of the boundary: just as in the case of −∆ + X, some of our operators are normal when considered on Rd. We characterize the semiclassical pseudospectrum of such problems as well as the areas of concentration of quasimodes. As an application, we prove a result about exit times for diffusion processes in bounded domains. We also demonstrate instability for a class of spectrally stable nonlinear evolution problems that are associated to these elliptic operators.

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