\( L^p\)-bounds for semigroups generated by non-elliptic quadratic differential operators (Q6111638)

Summary: In this note, we establish \(L^p\)-bounds for the semigroup \(e^{- t q^w ( x , D )}\), \( t \geq 0\), generated by a quadratic differential operator \(q^w ( x , D )\) on \(\mathbb{R}^n\) that is the Weyl quantization of a complex-valued quadratic form \(q\) defined on the phase space \(\mathbb{R}^{2 n}\) with non-negative real part \(\operatorname{Re} q \geq 0\) and trivial singular space. Specifically, we show that \(e^{- t q^w ( x , D )}\) is bounded from \(L^p ( \mathbb{R}^n )\) to \(L^q ( \mathbb{R}^n )\) for all \(t > 0\) whenever \(1 \leq p \leq q \leq \infty\), and we prove bounds on \(\| e^{- t q^w ( x , D )}\|_{L^p \to L^q} \) in both the large \(t \gg 1\) and small \(0 < t \ll 1\) time regimes. Regarding \(L^p \to L^q\) bounds for the evolution semigroup at large times, we show that \(\| e^{- t q^w ( x , D )}\|_{L^p \to L^q}\) is exponentially decaying as \(t \to \infty\), and we determine the precise rate of exponential decay, which is independent of \(( p , q )\). At small times \(0 < t \ll 1\), we establish bounds on \(\| e^{- t q^w ( x , D )}\|_{L^p \to L^q}\) for \(( p, q )\) with \(1 \leq p \leq q \leq \infty\) that are polynomial in \(t^{- 1}\).