Fiber Brownian motion and the ``hot spots problem

DOI10.1215/S0012-7094-00-10512-1zbMath1006.60078MaRDI QIDQ1847771

Krzysztof Burdzy, Richard F. Bass

Publication date: 27 October 2002

Published in: Duke Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

coupling methodreflected Brownian motionfiber Brownian motionsecond Neumann eigenfunction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brownian motion (60J65) Spectral theory and eigenvalue problems for partial differential equations (35P99) Diffusion processes (60J60) Probabilistic potential theory (60J45) Critical points of functionals in context of PDEs (e.g., energy functionals) (35B38)

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