Intrinsic ultracontractivity and small perturbation for one-dimensional generalized diffusion operators (Q2460021)

The author considers a one-dimensional generalized diffusion operator \({\mathcal G}\) on a domain \(D\) with the speed measure \(m\), the scale function \(s\) and the killing measure \(k\). Such operators are a natural generalization of second order differential operators. Let \(p(x,y,t)\) be the associated heat kernel, i.e., \(\frac{\partial}{\partial t} p(x,y,t)= {\mathcal G}p(x,y,t)\) and let \(G(x,y):=\int_0^\infty p(x,y,t) \,dt\) be the associated Green function. The author characterizes in terms of the classification of the boundary points the condition [SP] (i.e., 1 is a small perturbation of \(\mathcal G\)): for any \(\varepsilon>0\), there exists a compact subset \(K\) of \(D\) such that \(\int_{D\setminus K} G(x,z)G(z,y) w(z)\,d\nu(z)\leq \varepsilon G(x,y)\) for \(x,y\in D\setminus K\). He also gives sufficient conditions for [IU] (the heat kernel is intrinsically ultracontractive): for any \(t>0\), there exists a constant \(C_t>0\) such that \(p(x,y,t)\leq C_t \phi_0(x)\phi_0(y)\) when \(x,y\in D\).