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Tunnel effect for Kramers-Fokker-Planck type operators

Spectral Theory 2009-11-13 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider operators of Kramers-Fokker-Planck type in the semi-classical limit such that the exponent of the associated Maxwellian is a Morse function with two local minima and a saddle point. Under suitable additional assumptions we establish the complete asymptotics of the exponentially small splitting between the first two eigenvalues.

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@article{arxiv.math/0703684,
  title  = {Tunnel effect for Kramers-Fokker-Planck type operators},
  author = {Frederic Herau and Michael Hitrik and Johannes Sjoestrand},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0703684},
  year   = {2009}
}

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77 pages

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