Heat kernels and Green's functions on limit spaces (Q1866522)

The author studies the behavior of the Laplacian on a sequence of manifolds \(\{M^n_i\}\) with a lower bound in Ricci curvature \(\text{ Ric}_{M^n}\geq -(n-1)\Lambda,\) \(\Lambda\geq 0,\) that converges to a metric-measure space \(M_\infty.\) It is proved that the heat kernels and Green's functions on \(M^n_i\) converge to some integral kernels on \(M_\infty.\) It is also studied the Laplacian on noncollapsed metric cones; these provide a unified treatment of the asymptotic behavior of heat kernels and Green's functions on noncompact manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and Euclidean volume growth.