Examples of irregular domains for some hypoelliptic differential operators

MaRDI QIDQ1079267zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hermann Hueber

Publication date 1986

Published in Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

hypoelliptic differential operatorsirregular domainssmoothvector fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Pseudodifferential and Fourier integral operators on manifolds (58J40) Numerical computation of solutions to systems of equations (65H10)

Review text

Consider smooth vectorfields \(X_ 1,...,X_ n\) on a k-dimensional manifold M and assume that their commutators up to order r span the tangent space at each \(x\in M\). Rothschild and Stein opened a canonical way to study properties of the hypoelliptic operator \(L=X^ 2_ 1+...+X^ 2_ n\). They introduced a lifting procedure which connects L with an operator \(\tilde L=\tilde X^ 2_ 1+...+\tilde X^ 2_ n\) on a certain m-dimensional manifold N which contains M as a submanifold. The \(\tilde X_ i\) are liftings of the \(X_ i\), their commutators up to order r span the tangent space at each \(x\in N\), and the advantage is, that now the \(\tilde X_ i\) are free up to order r. For such situations there are models: \(\tilde L\) behaves like a sub-Laplacian on a stratified algebra of type I and this is especially true for the corresponding Green functions. So it is interesting to see examples of irregular domains in these models.

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