Semiclassical Analysis, Witten Laplacians, and Statistical Mechanics

Download or read book Semiclassical Analysis, Witten Laplacians, and Statistical Mechanics written by Bernard Helffer and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book explains how the technique of Witten Laplacians may be useful in statistical mechanics. It considers the problem of analyzing the decay of correlations, after presenting its origin in statistical mechanics. In addition, it compares the Witten Laplacian approach with other techniques, such as the transfer matrix approach and its semiclassical analysis. The author concludes by providing a complete proof of the uniform Log-Sobolev inequality.