Tunnel effect and symmetries for Kramers-Fokker-Planck type operators

Journal of the Institute of Mathematics of Jussieu

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 567-634

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

eigenvalue splitting; Fokker Planck; Semiclassical analysis; tunnel effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959325321     PISSN: 14747480     EISSN: 14753030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1474748011000028     Document Type: Article

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