Around supersymmetry for semiclassical second order differential operators

Let $P(h),h\in]0,1]$ be a semiclassical scalar differential operator of order $2$. The existence of a supersymmetric structure given by a matrix $G(x;h)$ was exhibited in \cite{HeHiSj13} under rather general assumptions. In this note we give a sufficient condition on its coefficient so that the matrix $G(x;h)$ enjoys some nice estimates with respect to the semiclassical parameter

On Kronecker's density theorem, primitive points and orbits of matrices

We discuss recent quantitative results in connexion with Kronecker's theorem on the density of subgroups in R^n and with Dani and Raghavan's theorem on the density of orbits in the spaces of frames. We also propose several related problems. The case of the natural linear action of the unimodular group SL_2(Z) on the real plane is investigated more closely. We then establish an intriguing link between the configuration of (discrete) orbits of primitive points and the rate of density of dense orbits

On inhomogeneous Diophantine approximation and Hausdorff dimension

Let $\Gamma = Z A +Z^n$ be a dense subgroup with rank $n+1$ in $R^n$ and let $\omega(A)$ denote the exponent of uniform simultaneous rational approximation to the point $A$. We show that for any real number $v\ge \omega(A)$, the Hausdorff dimension of the set $B_v$ of points in $R^n$ which are $v$-approximable with respect to $\Gamma$, is equal to $1/v$

Spectral analysis of random walk operators on euclidian space

We study the operator associated to a random walk on $\R^d$ endowed with a probability measure. We give a precise description of the spectrum of the operator near $1$ and use it to estimate the total variation distance between the iterated kernel and its stationary measure. Our study contains the case of Gaussian densities on $\R^d$.Comment: 19 page

Semi-classical analysis of a random walk on a manifold

We prove a sharp rate of convergence to stationarity for a natural random walk on a compact Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$. The proof includes a detailed study of the spectral theory of the associated operator.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AOP483 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org

Approximation to points in the plane by SL(2,Z)-orbits

Let x be a point in R^2 with irrational slope and let \Gamma denote the lattice SL(2,Z) acting linearly on R^2. Then, the orbit \Gamma x is dense in R^2. We give efective results on the approximation of a point y in R^2 by points of the form \gamma x, where \gamma belongs to \Gamma, in terms of the size of \gamma

Exponents of Diophantine Approximation and Sturmian Continued Fractions

Let x be a real number and let n be a positive integer. We define four exponents of Diophantine approximation, which complement the exponents w_n(x) and w_n^*(x) defined by Mahler and Koksma. We calculate their six values when n=2 and x is a real number whose continued fraction expansion coincides with some Sturmian sequence of positive integers, up to the initial terms. In particular, we obtain the exact exponent of approximation to such a continued fraction x by quadratic surds.Comment: 25 page