ON THE ASYMPTOTIC SPECTRUM OF A TRANSPORT OPERATOR WITH ELASTIC AND INELASTIC COLLISION OPERATORS

In this article, we investigate the spectral properties of a class of neutron transport operators involving elastic and inelastic collision operators introduced by Larsen and Zweifel [1]. Our analysis is manly focused on the description of the asymptotic spectrum which is very useful in the study of the properties of the solution to Cauchy problem governed by such operators(when it exists). The last section of this work is devoted to the properties of the leading eigenvalue(when it exists). So, we discuss the irreducibility of the semigroups generated by these operators. We close this section by discussing the strict monotonicity of the leading eigenvalue with respect to the parameters of the operator.