Gap of the first two eigenvalues of the Schrödinger operator with nonconvex potential

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Authors Shing-Tung Yau

Publication date 17 June 2010

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.2253

zbMATH Keywords

eigenfunctionsdouble well potentialSchrödinger operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

Abstract: We give a lower estimate of the gap of the first two eigenvalues of the Schrodinger operator with a nonconvex potential in terms of a distance associated with the potential. The results here can be applied to the double well potential.

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