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Some properties of sub-Laplaceans

Analysis of PDEs 2018-09-06 v1

Abstract

In this note I present some properties of sub-Laplaceans associated with a collection of smooth vector fields satisfying H\"ormander's finite rank assumption. One notable aspect of the paper is the development of the fractional powers of sub-Laplaceans as Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps of an extension problem inspired to the famous 2007 work of Caffarelli and Silvestre for the standard Laplacean. A key tool is an extension problem for the fractional heat equation for which I compute the relevant Poisson kernel. I then use the latter to: 1) find the Poisson kernel for the time-independent case; and 2) solve the extension problem.

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@article{arxiv.1809.01242,
  title  = {Some properties of sub-Laplaceans},
  author = {Nicola Garofalo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.01242},
  year   = {2018}
}
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