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

• Main Authors: Helffer, Bernard (Author), Nier, Francis (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1862
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Global analysis (Mathematics).; Manifolds (Mathematics).; Partial differential equations.; Geometry.; Quantum physics.; Statistics.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Partial Differential Equations.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.; Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds.; Quantum Physics.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.

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...