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Volume doubling, Poincar\'e inequality and Guassian heat kernel estimate for nonnegative curvature graphs

Differential Geometry 2015-12-08 v4 Combinatorics Metric Geometry

Abstract

By studying the heat semigroup, we prove Li-Yau type estimates for bounded and positive solutions of the heat equation on graphs, under the assumption of the curvature-dimension inequality CDE(n,0)CDE'(n,0), which can be consider as a notion of curvature for graphs. Furthermore, we derive that if a graph has non-negative curvature then it has the volume doubling property, from this we can prove the Gaussian estimate for heat kernel, and then Poincar\'e inequality and Harnack inequality. As a consequence, we obtain that the dimension of space of harmonic functions on graphs with polynomial growth is finite, which original is a conjecture of Yau on Riemannian manifold proved by Colding and Minicozzi. Under the assumption of positive curvature on graphs, we derive the Bonnet-Myers type theorem that the diameter of graphs is finite and bounded above in terms of the positive curvature by proving some Log Sobolev inequalities.

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@article{arxiv.1411.5087,
  title  = {Volume doubling, Poincar\'e inequality and Guassian heat kernel estimate for nonnegative curvature graphs},
  author = {Paul Horn and Yong Lin and Shuang Liu and Shing-Tung Yau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.5087},
  year   = {2015}
}

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45 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:0801.0812, arXiv:0911.1819 by other authors