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It has been unknown in kinetic theory whether the linearized Boltzmann or Landau equation with soft potentials admits a spectral gap in the spatially inhomogeneous setting. Most of existing works indicate a negative answer because the…

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The main goal of this dissertation is to find conditions which will guarantee the existence of solutions in the Hilbert space $H$ of semilinear equation \[ L u+N(u)=h \] where $L$ is a linear and self-adjoint operator, $N$ a non-linear…

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We consider the Schr\"odinger operator on the real line with a $N\ts N$ matrix valued periodic potential, N>1. The spectrum of this operator is absolutely continuous and consists of intervals separated by gaps. We define the Lyapunov…

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We obtain an essential spectral gap for $n$-dimensional convex co-compact hyperbolic manifolds with the dimension $\delta$ of the limit set close to $(n-1)/2$. The size of the gap is expressed using the additive energy of stereographic…

In this paper we work with parabolic SPDEs of the form $$ \partial_t u(t,x)=\partial_x^2 u(t,x)+g(t,x,u)+\sigma(t,x,u)\dot{W}(t,x) $$ with Neumann boundary conditions, where $x\in[0,1]$, $\dot{W}(t,x)$ is the space-time white noise on…

We consider nonlinear parabolic SPDEs of the form $\partial_t u=\sL u + \sigma(u)\dot w$, where $\dot w$ denotes space-time white noise, $\sigma:\R\to\R$ is [globally] Lipschitz continuous, and $\sL$ is the $L^2$-generator of a L\'evy…

We study the semigroup of the symmetric $\alpha$-stable process in bounded domains in $\R^2$. We obtain a variational formula for the spectral gap, i.e. the difference between two first eigenvalues of the generator of this semigroup. This…

Consider the following $p$-dimensional system of It\^o type stochastic PDEs, \begin{align*}\left[\begin{aligned} &\partial_t u(t\,,x) = \partial^2_x u(t\,,x) + b(u(t\,,x)) + \sigma(u(t\,,x)) \xi(t\,,x)\\ &\text{for…

We analyze a class of quantum spin models defined on half-spaces in the $d$-dimensional hypercubic lattice bounded by a hyperplane with inward unit normal vector $m\in\mathbb{R}^d$. The family of models was previously introduced as the…

We consider one-dimensional difference Schroedinger equations on the discrete line with a potential generated by evaluating a real-analytic potential function V(x) on the one-dimensional torus along an orbit of the shift x-->x+nw. If the…

Let $(E,\mathcal F,\mu)$ be a probability space, and let $P$ be a Markov operator on $L^2(\mu)$ with $1$ a simple eigenvalue such that $\mu P=\mu$ (i.e. $\mu$ is an invariant probability measure of $P$). Then $\hat P:=\ff 1 2 (P+P^*)$ has a…

We develop a general method to prove the existence of spectral gaps for Markov semigroups on Banach spaces. Unlike most previous work, the type of norm we consider for this analysis is neither a weighted supremum norm nor an ${\L}^p$-type…

In this article, we close a gap in the literature by proving existence of invariant measures for reflected SPDEs with only one reflecting barrier. This is done by arguing that the sequence (u(t, .)) is tight in the space of probability…