Exponential Decay for Barrier Potentials

Exponential Decay for Soft Potentials near Maxwellian

We consider both soft potentials with angular cutoff and Landau collision kernels in the Boltzmann theory inside a periodic box. We prove that any smooth perturbation near a given Maxwellian approaches zero at the rate of e−λt p for some λ > 0 and 0 < p < 1. Our method is based on an unified energy estimate with appropriate exponential velocity weight. Our results extend the classical result Ca...

Domination with exponential decay

Let G be a graph and S ⊆ V (G). For each vertex u ∈ S and for each v ∈ V (G) − S, we define d(u, v) = d(v, u) to be the length of a shortest path in 〈V (G)−(S−{u})〉 if such a path exists, and∞ otherwise. Let v ∈ V (G). We define wS(v) = ∑ u∈S 1 2d(u,v)−1 if v 6∈ S, and wS(v) = 2 if v ∈ S. If, for each v ∈ V (G), we have wS(v) ≥ 1, then S is an exponential dominating set. The smallest cardinalit...

Quantum decay rates for driven barrier potentials in the strong friction limit.

Quantum decay rates for barrier potentials driven by external stochastic and periodic forces in the strong damping regime are studied. Based on the quantum Smoluchowski equation derived recently by Ankerhold, Pechukas, and Grabert [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 086802 (2001)] explicit analytical and numerical results are presented for the case of the resonant activation phenomenon in a bistable potentia...

Uniform exponential decay for viscous damped systems

We consider a class of viscous damped vibrating systems. We prove that, under the assumption that the damping term ensures the exponential decay for the corresponding inviscid system, then the exponential decay rate is uniform for the viscous one, regardless what the value of the viscosity parameter is. Our method is mainly based on a decoupling argument of low and high frequencies. Low frequen...

Exponential Decay in Nonlinear Networks1