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We consider hyperbolic projections of orbits of holomorphic self-maps of the unit disc, onto curves landing on the unit circle with a given angle. We show that under certain, necessary, assumptions, the projections exhibit monotonicity…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Argyrios Christodoulou , Konstantinos Zarvalis

This paper describes results characterizing the range of the time-t heat operator on various manifolds, including Euclidean spaces, spheres, and hyperbolic spaces. The guiding principle behind these results is this: The functions in the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-08-06 Brian C. Hall

We consider Laplacians acting on sections of homogeneous vector bundles over symmetric spaces. By using an integral representation of the heat semi-group we find a formal solution for the heat kernel diagonal that gives a generating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-03 Ivan G. Avramidi

In the sub-Riemannian manifolds, on the one hand, following Baudoin-Garofalo \cite{BaudoinGarofalo}, the upper bound for heat kernels associated to a class of locally subelliptic operators are given under the generalized curvature-dimension…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Huai Qian LI

This paper is concerned with the Poisson and heat equations on spaces of constant curvature. More explicitly we provide new methods for obtaining old and new explicit formulas for the Poisson and heat semigroups on the Euclidean, spherical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Mohamed Vall Ould Moustapha

We give a unified and optimized proof of the sharp bounds for the Jacobi heat kernel, which were obtained gradually in several papers in recent years. We lay particular emphasis on tracing and estimating all constants appearing throughout…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Adam Nowak , Paweł Plewa , Tomasz Z. Szarek

We present a stable characterization of on-diagonal upper bounds for heat kernels associated with regular Dirichlet forms on metric measure spaces satisfying the volume doubling property. Our conditions include integral bounds on the jump…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Soobin Cho

Upper and lower bounds on the heat kernel on complete Riemannian manifolds were obtained in a series of pioneering works due to Cheng-Li-Yau, Cheeger-Yau and Li-Yau. However, these estimates do not give a complete picture of the heat kernel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-29 Xi Chen , Andrew Hassell

A functorial derivation is presented of a heat-kernel expansion coefficient on a manifold with a singular fixed point set of codimension two. The existence of an extrinsic curvature term is pointed out.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 J. S. Dowker

We prove genuinely sharp two-sided global estimates for heat kernels on all compact rank-one symmetric spaces. This generalizes the authors' recent result obtained for a Euclidean sphere of arbitrary dimension. Furthermore, similar heat…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Adam Nowak , Peter Sjögren , Tomasz Z. Szarek

We prove that a metric measure space equipped with a Dirichlet form admitting an Euclidean heat kernel is necessarily isometric to the Euclidean space. This helps us providing an alternative proof of Colding's celebrated almost rigidity…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Gilles Carron , David Tewodrose

The first heat kernel coefficients are calculated for a dispersive ball whose permittivity at high frequency differs from unity by inverse powers of the frequency. The corresponding divergent part of the vacuum energy of the electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Bordag , K. Kirsten

We construct a conservative and strongly local regular symmetric Dirichlet form on the pointed Gromov--Hausdorff limit space and demonstrate the stability of heat kernel estimates under this convergence. Furthermore, we establish the Mosco…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Aobo Chen

We prove sharp pointwise heat kernel estimates for symmetric Markov processes associated with symmetric Dirichlet forms that are local with respect to some coordinates and nonlocal with respect to the remaining coordinates. The main theorem…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-12 Jaehoon Kang , Moritz Kassmann

Monotonicity formulae play a crucial role for many geometric PDEs, especially for their regularity theories. For minimal submanifolds in a Euclidean ball, the classical monotonicity formula implies that if such a submanifold passes through…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Jonathan J. Zhu

We use a Harnack-type inequality on exit times and spectral bounds to characterize upper bounds of the heat kernel associated with any regular Dirichlet form without killing part, where the scale function may vary with position. We further…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Aobo Chen , Zhenyu Yu

We prove sharp two-sided global estimates for the heat kernel associated with a Euclidean sphere of arbitrary dimension. This solves a long-standing open problem.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Adam Nowak , Peter Sjögren , Tomasz Z. Szarek

We consider the asymptotics of the discrete heat kernel on isoradial graphs for the case where the time and the edge lengths tend to zero simultaneously. Depending on the asymptotic ratio between time and edge lengths, we show that two…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Simon Schwarz , Anja Sturm , Max Wardetzky

In this article, we prove a general and rather flexible upper bound for the heat kernel of a weighted heat operator on a closed manifold evolving by an intrinsic geometric flow. The proof is based on logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and…

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