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By adapting a technique of Molchanov, we obtain the heat kernel asymptotics at the sub-Riemannian cut locus, when the cut points are reached by an $r$-dimensional parametric family of optimal geodesics. We apply these results to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-06 Davide Barilari , Ugo Boscain , Robert W. Neel

In this paper, we study the Cauchy problem for a heat equation governed by a mixed local--nonlocal diffusion operator with spatially irregular coefficients. We first establish classical well-posedness in an energy framework for bounded,…

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We introduce a class of non-commutative Heisenberg like infinite dimensional Lie groups based on an abstract Wiener space. The Ricci curvature tensor for these groups is computed and shown to be bounded. Brownian motion and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-05-13 Bruce Driver , Maria Gordina

We review recent results about heat kernel estimates based on Kato conditions on the negative part of the Ricci curvature.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-12 Christian Rose , Peter Stollmann

This paper is concerned with the positivity of solutions to the Cauchy problem for linear and nonlinear parabolic equations with the biharmonic operator as fourth order elliptic principal part. Generally, Cauchy problems for parabolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Hans-Christoph Grunau , Nobuhito Miyake , Shinya Okabe

We present an overview of the history of the heat kernel and eigenfunctions on Riemannian manifolds and how the theory has lead to modern methods of analyzing high dimensional data via eigenmaps and other spectral embeddings. We begin with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-29 Chen-Yun Lin , Christina Sormani

In this paper, we study the subcritical biharmonic equation \[\Delta ^2 u=u^\alpha\] on a complete, connected, and non-compact Riemannian manifold $(M^n,g)$ with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Using the method of invariant tensors, we derive…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Xi-Nan Ma , Tian Wu , Wangzhe Wu

We consider a complete biharmonic submanifold $\phi:(M,g)\rightarrow (N,h)$ in a Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature bounded from above by a non-negative constant $c$. Assume that the mean curvature is bounded from below by $\sqrt…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-12 Shun Maeta

The local and global existence of the Cauchy problem for semilinear heat equations with small data is studied in the weighted $L^\infty (\mathbb R^n)$ framework by a simple contraction argument. The contraction argument is based on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Kazumasa Fujiwara , Vladimir Georgiev , Tohru Ozawa

We introduce, for the first time, a Bochner integral formula for the logarithmic Laplacian on any complete Riemannian manifold. This unified framework recovers the classical pointwise expression on Euclidean space and allows us to define…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Rui Chen

In this paper, we establish a complete Liouville--type hierarchy for polyharmonic functions on Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature. Extending Yau's classical result for harmonic functions and our recent biharmonic…

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Let $B_1$ be the unit open disk in $\Real^2$ and $M$ be a closed Riemannian manifold. In this note, we first prove the uniqueness for weak solutions of the harmonic map heat flow in $H^1([0,T]\times B_1,M)$ whose energy is non-increasing in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-19 Lu Wang

Based on the framework of Koch-Lamm and tensor heat kernel estimates, we obtain a uniform proof of the short-time existence, uniqueness, and continuous dependence for Ricci flows starting from a complete Riemannian metric with bounded…

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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…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2009-12-26 Sergio Albeverio , Astrid Hilbert , Vassily Kolokoltsov

We investigate the well-posedness of the fast diffusion equation (FDE) in a wide class of noncompact Riemannian manifolds. Existence and uniqueness of solutions for globally integrable initial data was established in [5]. However, in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-30 Gabriele Grillo , Matteo Muratori , Fabio Punzo

The asymptotic behavior of the heat kernel of a Riemannian manifold gives rise to the classical concepts of parabolicity, stochastic completeness (or conservative property) and Feller property (or $C^{0}$-diffusion property). Both…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-10-11 Stefano Pigola , Alberto G. Setti

We show that the space of polynomially bounded ancient solutions to the biharmonic heat equation on a complete manifold with polynomial volume growth is bounded by the dimensions of spaces of polynomially bounded biharmonic functions. This…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Alexander D. McWeeney

For a sequence of extrinsic or intrinsic biharmonic maps $u_j: M_j\rightarrow N$ from a sequence of non-collapsed degenerating closed Einstein 4-manifolds $(M_j,g_j)$ with bounded Einstein constants, bounded diameters and bounded $L^2$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Youmin Chen , Miaomiao Zhu

Let $\Omega$ be an open set in a geodesically complete, non-compact, $m$-dimen-sional Riemannian manifold $M$ with non-negative Ricci curvature, and without boundary. We study the heat flow from $\Omega$ into $M-\Omega$ if the initial…

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