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We study the heat kernel for a Laplace type partial differential operator acting on smooth sections of a complex vector bundle with the structure group $G\times U(1)$ over a Riemannian manifold $M$ without boundary. The total connection on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-17 Ivan G. Avramidi , Guglielmo Fucci

We introduce and study Brownian bridges to submanifolds. Our method involves proving a general formula for the integral over a submanifold of the minimal heat kernel on a complete Riemannian manifold. We use the formula to derive lower…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-21 James Thompson

In this paper we study heat kernels associated to a Carnot group $G$, endowed with a family of collapsing left-invariant Riemannian metrics $\sigma_\e$ which converge in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense to a sub-Riemannian structure on $G$ as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-22 Luca Capogna , Giovanna Citti , Maria Manfredini

In this note, we look at some hypoelliptic operators arising from nilpotent rank 2 Lie algebras. In particular, we concentrate on the diffusion generated by three Brownian motions and their three L\'evy areas, which is the simplest…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-07-28 Bin Qian

We introduce a sub-Riemannian analogue of the Bence-Merriman-Osher diffusion driven algorithm and show that it leads to weak solutions of the horizontal mean curvature flow of graphs over sub-Riemannian Carnot groups. The proof follows the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-22 Luca Capogna , Giovanna Citti , Cosimo Senni Guidotti Magnani

We prove a bound on the heat trace of the Neumann Laplacian on a convex domain that captures the first two terms in its small-time expansion, but is valid for all times and depends on the underlying domain only through very simple geometric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Rupert L. Frank , Simon Larson

We provide an elementary proof of the support of the law of a hypoelliptic Brownian motion on the Heisenberg group $\mathbb{H}$. We consider a control norm associated to left-invariant vector fields on $\mathbb{H}$, and describe the support…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-03-30 Marco Carfagnini

We prove several functional and geometric inequalities only assuming the linearity and a quantitative $\mathrm{L}^\infty$-to-Lipschitz smoothing of the heat semigroup in metric-measure spaces. Our results comprise a Buser inequality, a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Nicolò De Ponti , Giorgio Stefani

We propose a novel approach for studying small-time asymptotics of the fractional heat content of $C^2$ non-characteristic domains in Carnot groups. Denoting the sub-Laplacian operator by $\mathcal{L}$, the fractional heat content of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Rohan Sarkar

We study heat kernel measures on sub-Riemannian infinite-dimensional Heisenberg-like Lie groups. In particular, we show that Cameron-Martin type quasi-invariance results hold in this subelliptic setting and give $L^p$-estimates for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Fabrice Baudoin , Maria Gordina , Tai Melcher

We give large-time asymptotic estimates, both in uniform and $L^1$ norms, for solutions of the Dirichlet heat equation in the complement of a bounded open set of $\mathbb{R}^d$ satisfying certain technical assumptions. We always assume that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-04 José A. Cañizo , Alejandro Gárriz , Fernando Quirós

We analyze the heat kernel associated to the Laplacian on a compact metric graph, with standard Kirchoff-Neumann vertex conditions. An explicit formula for the heat kernel as a sum over loops, developed by Roth and Kostrykin, Potthoff, and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-05-10 David Borthwick , Kenny Jones , Evans M. Harrell

In this note, we obtain the asymptotic estimate for the time derivative of the $\Phi$-entropy in terms of the lower bound on the Bakry-Emery $\Gamma_2$ curvature. In the cases of Hyperbolic space and Heisenberg group, we show that the time…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-12 Bin Qian

We establish small-time asymptotic expansions for heat kernels of hypoelliptic H\"ormander operators in a neighborhood of the diagonal, generalizing former results obtained in particular by M\'etivier and by Ben Arous. The coefficients of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-15 Yves Colin de Verdière , Luc Hillairet , Emmanuel Trélat

We obtain upper bounds on the heat content and on the torsional rigidity of a complete Riemannian manifold M, assuming a generalized Hardy inequality for the Dirichlet Laplacian on M.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michiel van den Berg , Peter B. Gilkey

We show that, under a natural scaling, the small-time behavior of the logarithmic derivatives of the subelliptic heat kernel on $SU(2)$ converges to their analogues on the Heisenberg group at time 1. Realizing $SU(2)$ as $\mathbb{S}^3$, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Joshua Campbell , Tai Melcher

In this paper we study horizontal curvatures for surfaces embedded in three-dimensional contact sub-Riemannian Lie groups. Using a Riemannian approximation scheme, we derive explicit formulas for horizontal Gauss curvature, horizontal mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Elia Bubani , Andrea Pinamonti , Ioannis D. Platis , Dimitrios Tsolis

The aim of this paper is threefold. First, we obtain the precise bounds for the heat kernel on isotropic Heisenberg groups by using well-known results in the three dimensional case. Second, we study the asymptotic estimates at infinity for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Hong-Quan Li , Ye Zhang

This paper studies the heat content} for Schr\"odinger operators of the fractional Laplacian $(-\Delta)^{\alpha/2}$, $0<\alpha\leq 2$ in $R^d$, $d\geq 1$. Employing probabilistic and analytic techniques, a small time asymptotic expansion…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-01-14 Luis Acuña Valverde , Rodrigo Bañuelos

In this article, we develop a martingale approach to localized Bismut-type Hessian formulas for heat semigroups on Riemannian manifolds. Our approach extends the Hessian formulas established by Stroock (1996) and removes in particular the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Qin-Qian Chen , Li-Juan Cheng , Anton Thalmaier