TY - INPR A1 - Klein, Markus A1 - Rosenberger, Elke T1 - Tunneling for a class of difference operators N2 - We analyze a general class of difference operators containing a multi-well potential and a small parameter. We decouple the wells by introducing certain Dirichlet operators on regions containing only one potential well, and we treat the eigenvalue problem as a small perturbation of these comparison problems. We describe tunneling by a certain interaction matrix similar to the analysis for the Schrödinger operator, and estimate the remainder, which is exponentially small and roughly quadratic compared with the interaction matrix. T3 - Preprints des Instituts für Mathematik der Universität Potsdam - 1 (2012) 5 KW - semi-classical difference operator KW - tunneling KW - interaction matrix Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-56989 ER -