Numerical Calculation of the Essential Spectrum of a Laplacian

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Abstract
We consider a bounded Rooms and Passages region Ω on which the negative Neumann laplacian (restricted to the orthogonal complement of the constant functions) does not have a compact inverse and hence has an essential spectrum. We try to understand how such spectra may be approximated by results from a sequence of finite-dimensional problems. Approximations to this laplacian on finite-dimensional structures have only eigenvalues for spectra. Our strategy is to attempt to discern how results on increasingl y better appro ximating structures point to spectral results in the limiting case.

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