Tunnel Effect for Kramers-Fokker-Planck Type Operators: Return to Equilibrium and Applications

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNN057zbMATH Open1151.35012arXiv0801.3615OpenAlexW1972729407MaRDI QIDQ3515940FDOQ3515940

Authors: F. Hérau, Michael Hitrik, Johannes Sjöstrand 

Publication date: 30 July 2008

Published in: IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the first part of this work, we consider second order supersymmetric differential operators in the semiclassical limit, including the Kramers-Fokker-Planck operator, such that the exponent of the associated Maxwellian $phi$ is a Morse function with two local minima and one saddle point. Under suitable additional assumptions of dynamical nature, we establish the long time convergence to the equilibrium for the associated heat semigroup, with the rate given by the first non-vanishing, exponentially small, eigenvalue. In the second part of the paper, we consider the case when the function $phi$ has precisely one local minimum and one saddle point. We also discuss further examples of supersymmetric operators, including the Witten Laplacian and the infinitesimal generator for the time evolution of a chain of classical anharmonic oscillators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.3615

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zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck equationheat semigrouphypoellipticityMorse functionsemiclassical limitreturn to equilibriumWitten LaplacianKramers equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Hypoelliptic equations (35H10) Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P20) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82B35)

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