A note on eigenvalues estimates for one-dimensional diffusion operators

DOI10.3150/21-BEJ1333MaRDI QIDQ6320082arXivFDO

Authors Michel Bonnefont, Aldéric Joulin

Publication date 6 June 2019

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3150/21-BEJ1333

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75) Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35) Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds (58J65) Diffusion processes (60J60)

arXiv classification

math.FAmath.PR

Abstract: Dealing with one-dimensional diffusion operators, we obtain upper and lower variational formulae on the eigenvalues given by the max-min principle, generalizing the celebrated result of Chen and Wang on the spectral gap. Our inequalities reveal to be sharp at least when the eigenvalues considered belong to the discrete spectrum of the operator, since in this case both lower and upper bounds coincide and involve the associated eigenfunctions. Based on the intertwinings between diffusion operators and some convenient gradients with weights, our approach also allows to estimate the gap between the two first positive eigenvalues when the spectral gap belongs to the discrete spectrum.

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