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Low Lying Eigenvalues of Witten Laplacians and Metastability (After Hel.er-Klein-Nier and Helffer-Nier)

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Mathematical Physics of Quantum Mechanics

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The aim of this lecture is to present the recent results obtained in collaboration with M. Klein and F. Nier on the low lying eigenvalues of the Laplacian attached to the Dirichlet form :

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  1. Département de Mathématiques Bât. 425, Université Paris Sud, UMR CNRS 8628, Orsay Cedex, F91405, FRANCE

    Bernard Helffer

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  1. Département de Mathématiques, Université du Sud Toulon Var Centre de physique théorique, F-83957 La Garde Cedex, 20132, France

    Joachim Asch

  2. Institut Fourier Université Grenoble 1, 38402 Saint-Martin-d’Hères Cedex, 74, France

    Alain Joye

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Helffer, B. (2006). Low Lying Eigenvalues of Witten Laplacians and Metastability (After Hel.er-Klein-Nier and Helffer-Nier). In: Asch, J., Joye, A. (eds) Mathematical Physics of Quantum Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 690. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34273-7_29

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