Spectral Asymptotics for Kinetic Brownian Motion on Surfaces of Constant Curvature

Abstract

AbstractThe kinetic Brownian motion on the sphere bundle of a Riemannian manifold $$\mathbb {M}$$ M is a stochastic process that models a random perturbation of the geodesic flow. If $$\mathbb {M}$$ M is an orientable compact constantly curved surface, we show that in the limit of infinitely large perturbation the $$L^2$$ L 2 -spectrum of the infinitesimal generator of a time-rescaled version of the process converges to the Laplace spectrum of the base manifold.