Persistence of the spectral gap for the Landau-Pekar equations

Abstract

The Landau-Pekar equations describe the dynamics of a strongly coupled polaron. Here we provide a class of initial data for which the associated effective Hamiltonian has a uniform spectral gap for all times. For such initial data, this allows us to extend the results on the adiabatic theorem for the Landau-Pekar equations and their derivation from the Froehlich model obtained in [8, 7] to larger times.