Eigenvalue gaps for the Cauchy process and a Poincaré inequality

Journal of Functional Analysis

Volumn 234, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 199-225

  Bañuelos, Rodrigo ^a   Kulczycki, Tadeusz ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cauchy process; Poincar inequality; Spectral gap; Steklov problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645841343     PISSN: 00221236     EISSN: 10960783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfa.2005.11.016     Document Type: Article

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