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Bounding a spectral gap: what proof techniques exist?

The following situation is ubiquitous in mathematical physics. Let $\Lambda_N$ be a finite-size lattice with linear size $N$. An typical example would be the subset of $\mathbb{Z}\times\mathbb{Z}...