We show that the study of the principal spectrum of a linear nonautonomous parabolic PDE of second order on a bounded domain, with the Dirichlet or Neumann boundary conditions, reduces to the investigation of the spectrum of the linear nonautonomous ODE v̇ = a(t)v.
@article{bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_4064-cm90-1-8, author = {Janusz Mierczy\'nski}, title = {The principal spectrum for linear nonautonomous parabolic PDEs of second order: Space-independent case}, journal = {Colloquium Mathematicae}, volume = {89}, year = {2001}, pages = {95-100}, zbl = {0999.35063}, language = {en}, url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_4064-cm90-1-8} }
Janusz Mierczyński. The principal spectrum for linear nonautonomous parabolic PDEs of second order: Space-independent case. Colloquium Mathematicae, Tome 89 (2001) pp. 95-100. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-doi-10_4064-cm90-1-8/