Non-spectral relaxation in one dimensional Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes

Abstract

The relaxation of a dissipative system to its equilibrium state often shows a multiexponential pattern with relaxation rates, which are typically considered to be independent of the initial condition. The rates follow from the spectrum of a Hermitian operator obtained by a similarity transformation of the initial Fokker-Planck operator. However, some initial conditions are mapped by this similarity transformation to functions which grow at infinity. These cannot be expanded in terms of the eigenfunctions of an Hermitian operator, and show different relaxation patterns. Considering the exactly solvable examples of Gaussian and generalized Lévy Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes (OUPs) we show that the relaxation rates belong to the Hermitian spectrum only if the initial condition belongs to the domain of attraction of the stable distribution defining the noise. While for an ordinary OUP initial conditions leading to non-spectral relaxation can be considered exotic, for generalized OUPs driven by Lévy noise these are the rule.

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