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Let $p:C\to R$ be a subharmonic, nonharmonic polynomial and $\tau\in R$ a parameter. Define $\bar Z_{\tau p} = \partial_{\bar z} + \tau p_{\bar z} = e^{-\tau p} p_{\bar z} e^{\tau p}$, a closed, densely defined operator on $L^2(C)$. If…

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Let $(M,g(t))$, $0\le t\le T$, $\partial M\ne\phi$, be a compact $n$-dimensional manifold, $n\ge 2$, with metric $g(t)$ evolving by the Ricci flow such that the second fundamental form of $\partial M$ with respect to the unit outward normal…

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We consider the Cauchy problem for the complex valued semi-linear heat equation $$ \partial_t u - \Delta u - u^m =0, \ \ u (0,x) = u_0(x), $$ where $m\geq 2$ is an integer and the initial data belong to super-critical spaces $E^s_\sigma$…

In this paper, we develop a new approach to establish gradient estimates for positive solutions to the heat equation of elliptic or subelliptic operators on Euclidean spaces or on Riemannian manifolds. More precisely, we give some estimates…

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…

We use a basic martingale method to show a differentiation formula for the derivatives $$d(P_tf)(x_0)(v_0)={1\over t} E f(x_t) \int_0^t \langle Y(x_s)(v_s),dB_t\rangle_{R^m}.$$ These are proved first on $R^n$, then on manifolds. Afterwards…

The \textit{method of semigroups} is a unifying, widely applicable, general technique to formulate and analyze fundamental aspects of fractional powers of operators $L$ and their regularity properties in related functional spaces. The…

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We study the heat equation associated to the Hodge Laplacian on simplicial complexes. Using recently developed techniques for magnetic Schr\"odinger operators, we prove Davies-Gaffney-Grigoryan type estimates for the kernel of the heat…

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Let $\mathbb{H}^n$ be the $n$-dimensional real hyperbolic space, $\Delta$ its nonnegative Laplace--Beltrami operator whose bottom of the spectrum we denote by $\lambda_{0}$, and $\sigma \in (0,1)$. The aim of this paper is twofold. On the…

We prove the following gradient inequality for the subelliptic heat kernel on nilpotent Lie groups $G$ of H-type: $$|\nabla P_t f| \le K P_t(|\nabla f|)$$ where $P_t$ is the heat semigroup corresponding to the sublaplacian on $G$, $\nabla$…

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