Stability of parabolic Harnack inequalities on metric measure spaces (Q2497090)

The paper extends the results of \textit{M. T. Barlow} and \textit{R. F. Bass} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 356, No.~4, 1501--1533 (2004; Zbl 1034.60070)] and \textit{M. T. Barlow} [in: Surveys in Differential Geometry 9, 1--25 (2004; Zbl 1070.53039)], to the case of a metric measure space with a local regular Dirichlet form. A necessary and sufficient condition for a parabolic Harnack inequality (with global space-time scaling exponent \(\geq 2\)) to hold is proved. This parabolic Harnack inequality is stable under rough isometries. It follows that such a Harnack inequality holds for any uniformly elliptic operator in divergence form on a manifold naturally defined from the graph approximation of the space.