Some remarks on the heat flow for functions and forms

Some remarks on the heat flow for functions and forms
by Anton Thalmaier

This note is concerned with the differentiation of heat semigroups on Riemannian manifolds. In particular, the relation dP_tf = P_tdf is investigated for the semigroup generated by the Laplacian with Dirichlet boundary conditions. By means of elementary martingale arguments it is shown that well-known properties which hold on complete Riemannian manifolds fail if the manifold is only BM-complete. Even if M is flat and f smooth of compact support, the infinity norm of dP_tf can in general not be estimated on compact time intervals in terms of f or df.

Electron. Comm. Probab. 3 (1998) 43-49

https://doi.org/10.1214/ECP.v3-992

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Some remarks on the heat flow for functions and forms by Anton Thalmaier

Some remarks on the heat flow for functions and forms
by Anton Thalmaier