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Spectral pollution and second order relative spectra for self-adjoint operators

Michael Levitin, Eugene Shargorodsky

math.SParXiv:math/0212087

Abstract

We consider the phenomenon of spectral pollution arising in calculation of spectra of self-adjoint operators by projection methods. We suggest a strategy of dealing with spectral pollution by using the so-called second order relative spectra. The effectiveness of the method is illustrated by a detailed analysis of two model examples.

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