Gevrey estimates of the resolvent and sub-exponential time-decay of solutions

In this article, we study a class of non-selfadjoint Schr{\"o}dinger operators H which are perturbation of some model operator H 0 satisfying a weighted coercive assumption. For the model operator H 0 , we prove that the derivatives of the resolvent satisfy some Gevrey estimates at threshold zero. As application, we establish large time expansions of semigroups e --tH and e --itH for t > 0 with subexponential time-decay estimates on the remainder, including possible presence of zero eigenvalue and real resonances

Large-time asymptotics of solutions to the Kramers-Fokker-Planck equation with a short-range potential

In this work, we use scattering method to study the Kramers-Fokker-Planck equation with a potential whose gradient tends to zero at the infinity. For short-range potentials in dimension three, we show that complex eigenvalues do not accumulate at low-energies and establish the low-energy resolvent asymptotics. This combined with high energy pseudospectral estimates valid in more general situations gives the large-time asymptotics of the solution in weighted $L^2$ spaces

Inflation and Alternatives with Blue Tensor Spectra

We study the tilt of the primordial gravitational waves spectrum. A hint of blue tilt is shown from analyzing the BICEP2 and POLARBEAR data. Motivated by this, we explore the possibilities of blue tensor spectra from the very early universe cosmology models, including null energy condition violating inflation, inflation with general initial conditions, and string gas cosmology, etc. For the simplest G-inflation, blue tensor spectrum also implies blue scalar spectrum. In general, the inflation models with blue tensor spectra indicate large non-Gaussianities. On the other hand, string gas cosmology predicts blue tensor spectrum with highly Gaussian fluctuations. If further experiments do confirm the blue tensor spectrum, non-Gaussianity becomes a distinguishing test between inflation and alternatives.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figures. v2: references and minor improvements added. v3: version to appear on JCA

Connectivity of Direct Products of Graphs

Let $\kappa(G)$ be the connectivity of $G$ and $G\times H$ the direct product of $G$ and $H$. We prove that for any graphs $G$ and $K_n$ with $n\ge 3$, $\kappa(G\times K_n)=min\{n\kappa(G),(n-1)\delta(G)\}$, which was conjectured by Guji and Vumar.Comment: 5 pages, accepted by Ars Com