A variation on the Donsker–Varadhan inequality for the principal eigenvalue

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2016.0877zbMath1404.35306arXiv1611.09294OpenAlexW2557514999WikidataQ54161127 ScholiaQ54161127MaRDI QIDQ4644826

Stefan Steinerberger, Jian-feng Lu

Publication date: 9 January 2019

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09294

zbMATH Keywords

ground statefirst eigenvaluefirst exit timeDonsker-Varadhan estimatequantile decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations (35J25) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15)

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