%0 Journal Article %T On the spectrum of second order differential operators with complex coefficients %A B. M. Brown %A W. D. Evans %A D. K. R. McCormack %A M. Plum %J Mathematics %D 1997 %I arXiv %X The Weyl-Sims classification for a second-order ordinary differential equation with general complex coefficients is investigated. Connections are then established between the associated m-function and the spectral properties of maximal-accretive realisations of the differential expression. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9712247v3