Heat kernel estimates for some elliptic operators with unbounded diffusion coefficients (Q423875): Difference between revisions

By using the equivalence between Nash inequalities and ultracontractivity for symmetric Markov semigroups, the authors obtain upper bounds for the integral kernel \(p_{\mu}\) in \(L_{\mu}^2\) space and the integral kernel \(p\) with respect to the Lebesgue measure of the semigroup \((T(t))_{t\geq 0}\) generated by the operator \(L=m(x)(1+|x|^{\alpha})\Delta\) in the whole space \(\mathbb{R}^N\), \(N\geq 3\). Here, \(m\) is a bounded locally Hölder continuous function with \(\inf\,m>0\), \(\alpha\) is a positive real number, the measure \(d\mu\) is \(d\mu(x)=(m(x)(1+|x|^{\alpha}))^{-1}\,dx\), and \(p_{\mu}(x,y,t)=m(y)(1+|y|^{\alpha})p(x,y,t)\).