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Spectral decompositions and \(\mathbb{L}^2\)-operator norms of toy hypocoercive semi-groups. (English) Zbl 1262.35134

Summary: For any \(a > 0\), consider the hypocoercive generators \(y \partial_x + a \partial_y^2 - y \partial_y\) and \(y \partial_x - ax \partial_y + \partial_y^2 - y \partial_y\), respectively for \((x, y) \in \mathbb{R}/(2\pi \mathbb{Z}) \times \mathbb{R}\) and \((x,y) \in \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R}\). The goal of the paper is to obtain exactly the \(\mathbb{L}^2(\mu_a)\)-operator norms of the corresponding Markov semi-group at any time, where \(\mu_a\) is the associated invariant measure. The computations are based on the spectral decomposition of the generator and especially on the scalar products of the eigenvectors. The motivation comes from an attempt to find an alternative approach to classical ones developed to obtain hypocoercive bounds for kinetic models.

MSC:

35K65 Degenerate parabolic equations
35H10 Hypoelliptic equations
47A10 Spectrum, resolvent
15A18 Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors
15A60 Norms of matrices, numerical range, applications of functional analysis to matrix theory
37A30 Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators
60J60 Diffusion processes
47D06 One-parameter semigroups and linear evolution equations
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