scholarly journals SHORT TIME FULL ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION OF HYPOELLIPTIC HEAT KERNEL AT THE CUT LOCUS

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUZURU INAHAMA ◽  
SETSUO TANIGUCHI

In this paper we prove a short time asymptotic expansion of a hypoelliptic heat kernel on a Euclidean space and a compact manifold. We study the ‘cut locus’ case, namely, the case where energy-minimizing paths which join the two points under consideration form not a finite set, but a compact manifold. Under mild assumptions we obtain an asymptotic expansion of the heat kernel up to any order. Our approach is probabilistic and the heat kernel is regarded as the density of the law of a hypoelliptic diffusion process, which is realized as a unique solution of the corresponding stochastic differential equation. Our main tools are S. Watanabe’s distributional Malliavin calculus and T. Lyons’ rough path theory.

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
YUZURU INAHAMA ◽  
NOBUAKI NAGANUMA

We study a rough differential equation driven by fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter $H$ $(1/4<H\leqslant 1/2)$ . Under Hörmander’s condition on the coefficient vector fields, the solution has a smooth density for each fixed time. Using Watanabe’s distributional Malliavin calculus, we obtain a short time full asymptotic expansion of the density under quite natural assumptions. Our main result can be regarded as a “fractional version” of Ben Arous’ famous work on the off-diagonal asymptotics.


Author(s):  
Jean-Michel Bismut

This book uses the hypoelliptic Laplacian to evaluate semisimple orbital integrals in a formalism that unifies index theory and the trace formula. The hypoelliptic Laplacian is a family of operators that is supposed to interpolate between the ordinary Laplacian and the geodesic flow. It is essentially the weighted sum of a harmonic oscillator along the fiber of the tangent bundle, and of the generator of the geodesic flow. In this book, semisimple orbital integrals associated with the heat kernel of the Casimir operator are shown to be invariant under a suitable hypoelliptic deformation, which is constructed using the Dirac operator of Kostant. Their explicit evaluation is obtained by localization on geodesics in the symmetric space, in a formula closely related to the Atiyah-Bott fixed point formulas. Orbital integrals associated with the wave kernel are also computed. Estimates on the hypoelliptic heat kernel play a key role in the proofs, and are obtained by combining analytic, geometric, and probabilistic techniques. Analytic techniques emphasize the wavelike aspects of the hypoelliptic heat kernel, while geometrical considerations are needed to obtain proper control of the hypoelliptic heat kernel, especially in the localization process near the geodesics. Probabilistic techniques are especially relevant, because underlying the hypoelliptic deformation is a deformation of dynamical systems on the symmetric space, which interpolates between Brownian motion and the geodesic flow. The Malliavin calculus is used at critical stages of the proof.


1986 ◽  
Vol 102 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 253-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Harris

SynopsisIn an earlier paper [6] we showed that if q ϵ CN[0, ε) for some ε > 0, then the Titchmarsh–Weyl m(λ) function associated with the second order linear differential equationhas the asymptotic expansionas |A| →∞ in a sector of the form 0 < δ < arg λ < π – δ.We show that if the real valued function q admits the expansionin a neighbourhood of 0, then


2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (01) ◽  
pp. 59-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Bardos ◽  
Denis Grebenkov ◽  
Anna Rozanova-Pierrat

We consider a heat problem with discontinuous diffusion coefficients and discontinuous transmission boundary conditions with a resistance coefficient. For all bounded (ϵ, δ)-domains Ω ⊂ ℝn with a d-set boundary (for instance, a self-similar fractal), we find the first term of the small-time asymptotic expansion of the heat content in the complement of Ω, and also the second-order term in the case of a regular boundary. The asymptotic expansion is different for the cases of finite and infinite resistance of the boundary. The derived formulas relate the heat content to the volume of the interior Minkowski sausage and present a mathematical justification to the de Gennes' approach. The accuracy of the analytical results is illustrated by solving the heat problem on prefractal domains by a finite elements method.


2011 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 473-489
Author(s):  
HAI DU ◽  
WEILI WU ◽  
ZAIXIN LU ◽  
YINFENG XU

The Steiner minimum tree and the minimum spanning tree are two important problems in combinatorial optimization. Let P denote a finite set of points, called terminals, in the Euclidean space. A Steiner minimum tree of P, denoted by SMT(P), is a network with minimum length to interconnect all terminals, and a minimum spanning tree of P, denoted by MST(P), is also a minimum network interconnecting all the points in P, however, subject to the constraint that all the line segments in it have to terminate at terminals. Therefore, SMT(P) may contain points not in P, but MST(P) cannot contain such kind of points. Let [Formula: see text] denote the n-dimensional Euclidean space. The Steiner ratio in [Formula: see text] is defined to be [Formula: see text], where Ls(P) and Lm(P), respectively, denote lengths of a Steiner minimum tree and a minimum spanning tree of P. The best previously known lower bound for [Formula: see text] in the literature is 0.615. In this paper, we show that [Formula: see text] for any n ≥ 2.


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