On heat kernel comparison theorems (Q1300166)

The authors develop some upper estimates for heat kernels and apply the estimates to obtain Sobolev inequalities. In particular the first estimate, that generalizes various recent similar results, is about a type of manifold in a rank one symmetric space that is of irreducible type. The second estimate is for general submanifold in a space form, where the estimate is obtained using the length of the mean curvature vector.