Paper · Jul 14, 2020

Gaussian upper bounds for the heat kernel on evolving manifolds

Reto Buzano, Louis Yudowitz

math.DGarXiv:2007.07112
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Abstract

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 ultracontractivity estimates for the weighted operator along the flow, a method which was previously used by Davies in the case of a non-evolving manifold. This result directly implies Gaussian-type upper bounds for the heat kernel under certain bounds on the evolving distance function; in particular we find new proofs of Gaussian heat kernel bounds on manifolds evolving by Ricci flow with bounded curvature or positive Ricci curvature. We also obtain similar heat kernel bounds for a class of other geometric flows.

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Submitted
Jul 14, 2020
Subjects
math.DG, math.AP
Journal
J. London Math. Soc. 108, 1747-1768 (2023)
DOI
10.1112/jlms.12793

Comments: 20 pages

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Ricci flow Hamilton's Ricci flow evolves a Riemannian metric by minus twice its Ricci curvature. It is a nonlinear heat equation for geometry: it spreads… Start with: Three-manifolds with positive Ricci curvature (Hamilton, 1982) Heat kernel The heat kernel of the conjugate heat equation, coupled to Ricci flow, is the probe Perelman and Bamler use to measure geometry. Start with: On the parabolic kernel of the Schrödinger operator (Li et al., 1986)

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