Enhanced dissipation, hypoellipticity, and anomalous small noise inviscid limits in shear flows (Q524319)

This paper deals with the decay and instant regularization properties of the linear evolution semigroup generated by a drift-diffusion scalar equation and of its hypoelliptic counterpart. To achieve this goal, a suitable energy functional is constructed with exponential decay rate, and various error terms appearing in the differential inequality are estimated leading to \(L^2\)-decay estimate. The proofs rely on localized spectral gap inequalities and ideas from hypocoercivity; a proof of the small noise inviscid limit result is stated. It is a well written paper which should be useful to someone working in this direction.