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We obtain two-sided heat kernel estimates for Riemannian manifolds with ends with mixed boundary condition, provided that the heat kernels for the ends are well understood. These results extend previous results of Grigor'yan and…

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Motivated by the spectral theory of relativistic atoms, we prove matching upper and lower bounds for the transition density of Hardy perturbations of subordinated Bessel heat kernels. The analysis is based on suitable supermedian functions,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Krzysztof Bogdan , Tomasz Jakubowski , Konstantin Merz

Among the available perturbative approaches in quantum field theory, heat kernel techniques provide a powerful and geometrically transparent framework for computing effective actions in nontrivial backgrounds. In this work, resummation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-06 S. A. Franchino-Viñas , C. García-Pérez , F. D. Mazzitelli , S. Pla , V. Vitagliano

The generating function method is applied to the trace of the heat kernel and the one-loop effective action derived from the covariant perturbation theory. The basis of curvature invariants of second order for the heat kernel (Green…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei Barvinsky , Yuri Gusev

For a general class of percolation models with long-range correlations on $\mathbb Z^d$, $d\geq 2$, introduced in arXiv:1212.2885, we establish regularity conditions of Barlow arXiv:math/0302004 that mesoscopic subballs of all large enough…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Artem Sapozhnikov

A method to reconstruct fields, source strengths and physical parameters based on Gaussian process regression is presented for the case where data are known to fulfill a given linear differential equation with localized sources. The…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2019-09-10 Christopher G. Albert

In the uniformly discrete case of virtual persistence diagram groups $K(X,A)$, we construct a translation-invariant heat semigroup. The kernels are supported on a countable subgroup $H$, and the restriction to $H$ has Fourier exponent…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Charles Fanning , Mehmet Aktas

We study some spectral properties of random walks on infinite countable amenable groups with an emphasis on locally finite groups, e.g. the infinite symmetric group. On locally finite groups, the random walks under consideration are driven…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Alexander Bendikov , Barbara Bobikau , Christophe Pittet

The energy density spectrum is an observable of gravitational waves. Divergence has appeared in the energy density spectra of the scalar induced gravitational waves for different gauge fixings. To resolve the discrepancy, we investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-06 Zhe Chang , Sai Wang , Qing-Hua Zhu

We provide pointwise upper bounds for the transition kernels of semigroups associated with a class of systems of nondegenerate elliptic partial differential equations with unbounded coefficients with possibly unbounded diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Davide Addona , Luca Lorenzi , Marianna Porfido

Graph-structured data arise in wide applications, such as computer vision, bioinformatics, and social networks. Quantifying similarities among graphs is a fundamental problem. In this paper, we develop a framework for computing graph…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-11 Zhen Zhang , Mianzhi Wang , Yijian Xiang , Yan Huang , Arye Nehorai

In this paper, we study the gradient estimates for the positive solutions of the weighted porous medium equation $$\Delta u^{m}=\delta(x)u_{t}+\psi u^{m}$$ on graphs for $m>1$, which is a nonlinear version of the heat equation. Moreover, as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Shoudong Man

We consider random walks on the nonnegative integers in a space-time dependent random environment. We assume that transition probabilities are given by independent $\mathrm{Beta}(\mu,\mu)$ distributed random variables, with a specific…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Guillaume Barraquand , Mark Rychnovsky

Assuming the heat kernel on a doubling Dirichlet metric measure space has a sub-Gaussian bound, we prove an asymptotically sharp spectral upper bound on the survival probability of the associated diffusion process. As a consequence, we can…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Phanuel Mariano , Jing Wang

We propose the total staggered quantum walk model and the total tessellation cover of a graph. This model uses the concept of total tessellation cover to describe the motion of the walker who is allowed to hop both to vertices and edges of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Alexandre Abreu , Luís Cunha , Celina de Figueiredo , Franklin Marquezino , Daniel Posner , Renato Portugal

We propose random walks on suitably defined graphs as a framework for finescale modeling of particle motion in an obstructed environment where the particle may have interactions with the obstructions and the mean path length of the particle…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Preston Donovan , Muruhan Rathinam

We consider rough metrics on smooth manifolds and corresponding Laplacians induced by such metrics. We demonstrate that globally continuous heat kernels exist and are H\"older continuous locally in space and time. This is done via local…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-23 Lashi Bandara , Paul Bryan

For incomplete sub-Riemannian manifolds, and for an associated second-order hypoelliptic operator, which need not be symmetric, we identify two alternative conditions for the validity of Gaussian-type upper bounds on heat kernels and…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-23 Ismael Bailleul , James Norris

A short informal overview about recent progress in the calculation of the effective action in quantum gravity is given. I describe briefly the standard heat kernel approach to the calculation of the effective action and discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan G. Avramidi

We present a method for estimating the edge of a two-dimensional bounded set, given a finite random set of points drawn from the interior. The estimator is based both on a Parzen-Rosenblatt kernel and extreme values of point processes. We…

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