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A complete spectral analysis of an integral-difference operator arising as a collision operator in some nonequilibrium statistical physics models is presented. Eigenfunctions of both discrete and continuous spectrum are constructed.
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Melnikov, Y. On Spectral Analysis of an Integral-Difference Operator. Letters in Mathematical Physics 42, 379–387 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007481703103
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