Tunnel effect for Kramers-Fokker-Planck type operators

Annales Henri Poincare

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 209-274

  Hérau, Frédéric ^a   Hitrik, Michael ^b   Sjöstrand, Johannes ^c  

^a Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Reims University of Reims Champagne Ardenne   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CENTRE DE MATHÉMATIQUES LAURENT SCHWARTZ   (France)

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EID: 42749083551     PISSN: 14240637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00023-008-0355-y     Document Type: Article

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