A probabilistic proof of the fundamental gap conjecture via the coupling by reflection

DOI10.1007/S11118-015-9476-3MaRDI QIDQ283366zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Huai-Qian Li, Fuzhou Gong, Dejun Luo

Publication date 13 May 2016

Published in Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.2459

zbMATH Keywords

ground statespectral gapcoupling by reflectionlogarithmic Sobolev inequalitySchrödinger operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H10) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15)

Abstract: Let $Omegasubsetmathbb{R}^n$ be a strictly convex domain with smooth boundary and diameter $D$. The fundamental gap conjecture claims that if $$ is convex, then the spectral gap of the Schr"odinger operator $-Delta+V$ with Dirichlet boundary condition is greater than $frac3p{i}^2{D}^2$. Using analytic methods, Andrews and Clutterbuck recently proved in [J. Amer. Math. Soc. 24 (2011), no. 3, 899--916] a more general spectral gap comparison theorem which implies this conjecture. In the first part of the current work, we shall give an independent probabilistic proof of their result via the coupling by reflection of the diffusion processes. Moreover, we also present in the second part a simpler probabilistic proof of the original conjecture.

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