Related papers: Heat kernel estimates for the Grusin operator

Consider the elliptic operator \[ A = - \sum_{k,l=1}^d \partial_k \, c_{kl} \, \partial_l + \sum_{k=1}^d a_k \, \partial_k - \sum_{k=1}^d \partial_k \, b_k + a_0 \] on a bounded connected open set $\Omega \subset {\bf R}^d$ with Lipschitz…

We establish a Gaussian upper bound of the heat kernel for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on complete Riemannian manifolds with Bakry-\'Emery Ricci curvature bounded below. As applications, we first prove an L^1-Liouville property for…

For $d\geq 1$ and $0<\beta<\alpha<2$, consider a family of pseudo differential operators $\{\Delta^{\alpha} + a^\beta \Delta^{\beta/2}; a \in [0, 1]\}$ that evolves continuously from $\Delta^{\alpha/2}$ to $ \Delta^{\alpha/2}+…

Heat kernels are used in this paper to express the analytic index of projectively invariant Dirac type operators on G-covering spaces of compact manifolds, as elements in the K-theory of certain unconditional completions of the twisted…

Efficient computation of optimal transport distance between distributions is of growing importance in data science. Sinkhorn-based methods are currently the state-of-the-art for such computations, but require $O(n^2)$ computations. In…

We give matching upper and lower bounds for the Dirichlet heat kernel of a Schr\"odinger operator $\Delta+W$ in the domain above the graph of a bounded Lipschitz function, in the case when $W$ decays away from the boundary faster than…

Let $(\mathbb M, d,\mu)$ be a metric measure space with upper and lower densities: $$ \begin{cases} |||\mu|||_{\beta}:=\sup_{(x,r)\in \mathbb M\times(0,\infty)} \mu(B(x,r))r^{-\beta}<\infty;\\ |||\mu|||_{\beta^{\star}}:=\inf_{(x,r)\in…

In this paper, we study Ornstein-Uhlenbeck operators with quadratic potentials. We use Hamiltonian formalism to characterise the singularities produced by the potentials by finding explicit geodesics of the operators, and obtain the heat…

We consider a family of pseudo differential operators $\{\Delta+ a^\alpha \Delta^{\alpha/2}; a\in (0, 1]\}$ on $\bR^d$ for every $d\geq 1$ that evolves continuously from $\Delta$ to $\Delta + \Delta^{\alpha/2}$, where $\alpha \in (0, 2)$.…

Let $n\ge2$ and $\Omega$ be a bounded non-tangentially accessible domain (for short, NTA domain) of $\mathbb{R}^n$. Assume that $L_D$ is a second-order divergence form elliptic operator having real-valued, bounded, measurable coefficients…

Let $L$ be a non-negative self-adjoint operator acting on $L^2(X)$ where $X$ is a space of homogeneous type with a dimension $n$. Suppose that the heat kernel of $L$ satisfies the Davies-Gaffney estimates of order $m\geq 2$. Let $H^1_L(X)$…

Using the Zwanzig projection-operator formalism, we derive a causal two-point spatiotemporal kernel for heat conduction, defined microscopically as a space-resolved equilibrium heat-flux time-correlation function, that encodes temporal…

We calculate the expectation values of the stress-energy bitensor defined at two different spacetime points $x, x'$ of a massless, minimally coupled scalar field with respect to a quantum state at finite temperature $T$ in a flat…

We establish sharp upper and lower bounds of Gaussian type for the heat kernel in the metric measure space satisfying $\RCD(0,N)$ ( equivalently, $\RCD^\ast(0,N)$) condition with $N\in \mathbb{N}\setminus\{1\}$ and having maximum volume…

We establish two-sided Gaussian bounds on the heat kernel of divergence-form parabolic equation with singular time-inhomogeneous vector field satisfying some minimal assumptions.

The first three coefficients in an expansion of the heat kernel of a nonminimal nonabelian kinetic operator taken in an arbitrary background gauge in arbitrary space-time dimension are calculated

Let $L=-\Delta+V$ be a Schr\"odinger operator, where the potential $V$ belongs to the reverse H\"older class. By the subordinative formula, we introduce the fractional heat semigroup $\{e^{-t{L}^\alpha}\}_{t>0}, \alpha>0$, associated with…

In this paper, we derive explicit sharp two-sided estimates for the Dirichlet heat kernels, in C^{1,1} open sets D in R^d, of a large class of subordinate Brownian motions with Gaussian components. When D is bounded, our sharp two-sided…

We analyze the asymptotic behaviour of the heat kernel defined by a stochastically perturbed geodesic flow on the cotangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold for small time and small diffusion parameter. This extends WKB-type methods to a…

We prove pointwise and $L^p$ gradient estimates for the heat kernel on the bounded and unbounded Vicsek set and applications to Sobolev inequalities are given. We also define a Hodge semigroup in that setting and prove estimates for its…