The notion of strong circularity for an unbounded operator is introduced and studied. Moreover, q-deformed circularity as a q-analogue of circularity is characterized in terms of the partially isometric and the positive parts of the polar decomposition.
Classically, Hardy’s inequality enables to estimate the spectral gap of a one-dimensional diffusion up to a factor belonging to . The goal of this paper is to better understand the latter factor, at least in a symmetric setting. In particular, we will give an asymptotical criterion implying that its value is exactly 4. The underlying argument is based on a semi-explicit functional for the spectral gap, which is monotone in some rearrangement of the data. To find it will resort to some regularity...