Tamed stability of finite difference schemes for the transport equation on the half-line

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that, under precise spectral assumptions, some finite difference approximations of scalar leftgoing transport equations on the positive half-line with numerical boundary conditions are ℓ 1 \ell ^1 -stable but ℓ q \ell ^q -unstable for any q > 1 q>1 . The proof relies on the accurate description of the Green’s function for a particular family of finite rank perturbations of Toeplitz operators whose essential spectrum belongs to the closed unit disk and with a simple eigenvalue of modulus 1 1 embedded into the essential spectrum.