Elliptic operators with unbounded drift coefficients and Neumann boundary condition

We study the realization A_N of the operator in L2(Ω,μ) with Neumann boundary condition, where Ω is a possibly unbounded convex open set in , U is a convex unbounded function, DU(x) is the element with minimal norm in the subdifferential of U at x, and is a probability measure, infinitesimally invariant for . We show that A_N is a dissipative self-adjoint operator in L2(Ω,μ). Log-Sobolev and Poincaré inequalities allow then to study smoothing properties and asymptotic behavior of the semigroup generated by A_N.