Dimension-independent estimates for heat operators and harmonic functions (Q2248979)

The authors establish dimension-independent estimates related to heat operators of the form \(e^{tL}\) on manifolds. The exact meaning of the operator \(L\) for some particular cases is explained below. Besides a very general contractivity result for Markov kernels and estimates on the norm behavior of harmonic and non-negative sub-harmonic functions, the authors obtain deep results for the case of \(L\) being the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvature bounded from below, and for the case of \(L\) being an invariant sub-elliptic operator of Hörmander type on a Lie group. In particular, in the first case point-wise bounds on harmonic and sub-harmonic functions are obtained, and in the second case the same is obtained for harmonic functions when a generalized curvature-dimension inequality is satisfied.