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In this paper we prove that a class of non self-adjoint second order differential operators acting in cylinders \(\Omega \times {\mathbb R}\subseteq {\mathbb R}^{d+1}\) have only real discrete spectrum located to the right of the right most point of the essential spectrum. We describe the essential spectrum using the limiting properties of the potential. To track the discrete spectrum we use spatial dynamics and bi-semigroups of linear operators to estimate the decay rate of eigenfunctions associated to isolated eigenvalues.
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Partially supported by the US National Science Foundation under Grants NSF DMS-1710989 and NSF DMS-1311313, by the Research Board and Research Council of the University of Missouri, and by the Simons Foundation Award Number 402904.
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Ghazaryan, A., Latushkin, Y. & Pogan, A. Spectrum of Non-planar Traveling Waves. Integr. Equ. Oper. Theory 90, 30 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00020-018-2447-5
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