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Operators generated by a differential expression on a finite closed interval are considered. It is shown that, for any odd integer n, there exist differential operators of order n whose spectrum fills the whole complex plane.
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Original Russian Text © A. M. Akhtyamov, 2017, published in Matematicheskie Zametki, 2017, Vol. 101, No. 5, pp. 643–646.
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Akhtyamov, A.M. On the spectrum of an odd-order differential operator. Math Notes 101, 755–758 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001434617050017
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