Donsker, M. D.; Varadhan, S. R. S. On the principal eigenvalue of elliptic second order differential operators. (English) Zbl 0447.35030 Proc. int. Symp. on stochastic differential equations, Kyoto 1976, 41-47 (1978). Page: −5 −4 −3 −2 −1 ±0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 Show Scanned Page Cited in 2 Documents MSC: 35J25 Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic equations 35P05 General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs 60J35 Transition functions, generators and resolvents 60J60 Diffusion processes 35P15 Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs 35J20 Variational methods for second-order elliptic equations 60J45 Probabilistic potential theory Keywords:elliptic second order partial differential operator; Dirichlet boundary conditions; principal eigenvalue; variational formula; Markov process; diffusion process Citations:Zbl 0402.00009; Zbl 0351.60036 × Cite Format Result Cite Review PDF