Heat kernel upper bounds for symmetric Markov semigroups

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Abstract: It is well known that Nash-type inequalities for symmetric Dirichlet forms are equivalent to on-diagonal heat kernel upper bounds for the associated symmetric Markov semigroups. In this paper, we show that both imply (and hence are equivalent to) off-diagonal heat kernel upper bounds under some mild assumptions. Our approach is based on a new generalized Davies' method. Our results extend that of cite{CKS} for Nash-type inequalities with power order considerably and also extend that of cite{Gri} for second order differential operators on a complete non-compact manifold.


Analysis on heat kernel plays an important role in analysis, geometry and probability. It is well known that Nash-type inequalities for symmetric Dirichlet forms are equivalent to on-diagonal heat kernel upper bounds for the associated symmetric Markov semigroups. The main contribution of the paper is to prove that both are equivalent to off-diagonal heat kernel upper bounds under some mild assumptions, which extends some previous results. Refer to Theorem 1.2 and Theorem 4.3 for the main results. Applications and examples are given in Section 5.



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