Pseudomodes for biharmonic operators with complex potentials

Abstract

This article is devoted to the construction of pseudomodes of one-dimensional biharmonic operators with the complex-valued potentials via the WKB method. As a by-product, the shape of pseudospectrum near infinity can be described. This is a newly discovered systematic method that goes beyond the standard semi-classical setting which is a direct consequence. This approach can cover a wide class of previously inaccessible potentials, from logarithmic to superexponential ones.