The behavior of the spectral gap under growing drift

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 362, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1325-1350

  Franke, B ^a   Hwang, C R ^b   Pai, H M ^c   Sheu, S J ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Divergence free drift; Laplace beltrami operator; Spectral gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950875249     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-09-04939-3     Document Type: Article

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