Instability of Isolated Spectrum for W-shaped Maps
  In this note we consider $W$-shaped map $W_0=W_{s_1,s_2}$ with $\frac {1}{s_1}+\frac {1}{s_2}=1$ and show that eigenvalue 1 is not stable. We do this in a constructive way. For each perturbing map $W_a$ we show the existence of the "second" eigenvalue $\lambda_a$, such that $\lambda_a\to 1$, as $a\to 0$, which proves instability of isolated spectrum of $W_0$. At the same time, the existence of second eigenvalues close to 1 causes the maps $W_a$ behave in a metastable way. They have two almost invariant sets and the system spends long periods of consecutive iterations in each of them with infrequent jumps from one to the other. 
Zhenyang Li and Pawe{\l} G\'ora
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