Spectral Gaps on Discretized Loop Spaces

DOI10.1142/S021902570300116XMaRDI QIDQ3043503zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Andreas Eberle

Publication date 6 August 2004

Published in Infinite Dimensional Analysis, Quantum Probability and Related Topics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/S021902570300116X

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian bridgePoincaré inequalitysemiclassical analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Set functions and measures and integrals in infinite-dimensional spaces (Wiener measure, Gaussian measure, etc.) (28C20) Variational inequalities (global problems) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E35) Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds (58J65)

Review text

The starting idea of this work is to get information on the possible spectral gap for the loop space over a compact Riemannian manifold, by looking at finite-dimensional approximations. This is done by studying tubes \(U\) of piecewise geodesics, endowed with the probability measure \(\mu\) having with respect to the (product) volume measure a density proportional to \(\exp(-E(\omega)/T)\), where \(E(\omega)\) denotes the energy of the path \(\omega\) and \(T\) is a positive parameter. It is known that, up to a multiplicative factor, bounded and bounded away from \(O\), \(\mu\) approximates the pinned Wiener measure. The object of this study are the spectral gaps: \[ \lambda_T:= \inf\Biggl\{\int_U |\nabla f|^2 d\mu/\text{Var}(f,U,\mu)\Biggr\} \] (\(f\) non-constant), and \(\lambda^*_T\) its analogue relative to centred \(f\)'s. Then the main results give asymptotics of \(\lambda_T\), \(\lambda^*_T\) as \(T\downarrow 0\), which are basically as follows: \(\lim_{T\searrow 0} T\log\lambda_T= -m\) and \(\lim_{T\searrow 0} T\log\lambda^*_T= \alpha\), where \(m\) and \(\alpha\) are explicit positive constants. By means of some other geometrical interpretation of these constants, this allows to exhibit in particular a drastic dependence of the spectral properties of the loop spaces upon the choice of the Riemannian metric on the base manifold.

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