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This paper extends the theory from [K2] to some weakly coupled parabolic systems of PDE which generate Markov processes with switching at random times between a finite number of diffusion processes.
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Dedicated to Professor Shmuel Agmon
Partially supported by the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation.
An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02788851.
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Kifer, Y. Principal eigenvalues and equilibrium states corresponding to weakly coupled parabolic systems of PDE. J. Anal. Math. 59, 89–102 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02790219
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