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

DOI10.1093/imrn/rnn057zbMath1151.35012arXiv0801.3615MaRDI QIDQ3515940

Johannes Sjöstrand, Michael Hitrik, Frederic Hérau

Publication date: 30 July 2008

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

Fokker-Planck equation; semiclassical limit; heat semigroup; hypoellipticity; return to equilibrium; Morse function; Witten Laplacian; Kramers equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35B40: Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs

35P15: Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs

35P20: Asymptotic distributions of eigenvalues in context of PDEs

35H10: Hypoelliptic equations

82B35: Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory