Spectral gaps of 1-D Robin Schrodinger operators with single-well potentials

We prove sharp lower bounds on the spectral gap of 1-dimensional Schrodinger operators with Robin boundary conditions for each value of the Robin parameter. In particular, our lower bounds apply to single-well potentials with a centered transition point. This result extends work of Cheng et al. and Horvath in the Neumann and Dirichlet endpoint cases to the interpolating regime. We also build on recent work by Andrews, Clutterbuck, and Hauer in the case of convex and symmetric single-well potentials. In particular, we show the spectral gap is an increasing function of the Robin parameter for symmetric potentials.