Hypoelliptic Estimates and Spectral Theory for Fokker-Planck Operators and Witten Laplacians

There has recently been a renewal of interest in Fokker-Planck operators, motivated by problems in statistical physics, in kinetic equations and differential geometry. Compared to more standard problems in the spectral theory of partial differential operators, those operators are not self-adjoint an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nier, Francis, Helffer, Bernard (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2005, 2005
Edition:1st ed. 2005
Series:Lecture Notes in Mathematics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Kohn's Proof of the Hypoellipticity of the Hörmander Operators
  • Compactness Criteria for the Resolvent of Schrödinger Operators
  • Global Pseudo-differential Calculus
  • Analysis of some Fokker-Planck Operator
  • Return to Equillibrium for the Fokker-Planck Operator
  • Hypoellipticity and Nilpotent Groups
  • Maximal Hypoellipticity for Polynomial of Vector Fields and Spectral Byproducts
  • On Fokker-Planck Operators and Nilpotent Techniques
  • Maximal Microhypoellipticity for Systems and Applications to Witten Laplacians
  • Spectral Properties of the Witten-Laplacians in Connection with Poincaré Inequalities for Laplace Integrals
  • Semi-classical Analysis for the Schrödinger Operator: Harmonic Approximation
  • Decay of Eigenfunctions and Application to the Splitting
  • Semi-classical Analysis and Witten Laplacians: Morse Inequalities
  • Semi-classical Analysis and Witten Laplacians: Tunneling Effects
  • Accurate Asymptotics for the Exponentially Small Eigenvalues of the Witten Laplacian
  • Application to the Fokker-Planck Equation
  • Epilogue
  • Index