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Stochastic Analysis and Related TopicsPositive-Homogeneous Operators, Heat Kernel Estimates and the Legendre-Fenchel Transform

Stochastic Analysis and Related Topics: Positive-Homogeneous Operators, Heat Kernel Estimates and... [We consider a class of homogeneous partial differential operators on a finite-dimensional vector space and study their associated heat kernels. The heat kernels for this general class of operators are seen to arise naturally as the limiting objects of the convolution powers of complex-valued functions on the square lattice in the way that the classical heat kernel arises in the (local) central limit theorem. These so-called positive-homogeneous operators generalize the class of semi-elliptic operators in the sense that the definition is coordinate-free. More generally, we introduce a class of variable-coefficient operators, each of which is uniformly comparable to a positive-homogeneous operator, and we study the corresponding Cauchy problem for the heat equation. Under the assumption that such an operator has Hölder continuous coefficients, we construct a fundamental solution to its heat equation by the method of Levi, adapted to parabolic systems by Friedman and Eidelman. Though our results in this direction are implied by the long-known results of Eidelman for 2b\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document} $$2\mathbf{b}$$ \end{document}-parabolic systems, our focus is to highlight the role played by the Legendre-Fenchel transform in heat kernel estimates. Specifically, we show that the fundamental solution satisfies an off-diagonal estimate, i.e., a heat kernel estimate, written in terms of the Legendre-Fenchel transform of the operator’s principal symbol—an estimate which is seen to be sharp in many cases.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Stochastic Analysis and Related TopicsPositive-Homogeneous Operators, Heat Kernel Estimates and the Legendre-Fenchel Transform

Part of the Progress in Probability Book Series (volume 72)
Editors: Baudoin, Fabrice; Peterson, Jonathon

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2017
ISBN
978-3-319-59670-9
Pages
1 –55
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-59671-6_1
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Abstract

[We consider a class of homogeneous partial differential operators on a finite-dimensional vector space and study their associated heat kernels. The heat kernels for this general class of operators are seen to arise naturally as the limiting objects of the convolution powers of complex-valued functions on the square lattice in the way that the classical heat kernel arises in the (local) central limit theorem. These so-called positive-homogeneous operators generalize the class of semi-elliptic operators in the sense that the definition is coordinate-free. More generally, we introduce a class of variable-coefficient operators, each of which is uniformly comparable to a positive-homogeneous operator, and we study the corresponding Cauchy problem for the heat equation. Under the assumption that such an operator has Hölder continuous coefficients, we construct a fundamental solution to its heat equation by the method of Levi, adapted to parabolic systems by Friedman and Eidelman. Though our results in this direction are implied by the long-known results of Eidelman for 2b\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document} $$2\mathbf{b}$$ \end{document}-parabolic systems, our focus is to highlight the role played by the Legendre-Fenchel transform in heat kernel estimates. Specifically, we show that the fundamental solution satisfies an off-diagonal estimate, i.e., a heat kernel estimate, written in terms of the Legendre-Fenchel transform of the operator’s principal symbol—an estimate which is seen to be sharp in many cases.]

Published: Sep 27, 2017

Keywords: 2b\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document} $$2\mathbf{b}$$ \end{document} -parabolic operators; Heat kernel estimates; Legendre-Fenchel transform; Quasi-elliptic operators; Semi-elliptic operators; Primary 35H30; Secondary 35K25

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