The evolution and Poisson kernels on nilpotent meta-abelian groups (Q2866757)

The authors investigate a special class of second order differential operators on a semidirect product \(S\) of a connected and simply connected, non-abelian, nilpotent meta-abelian Lie group \(N\) and a space \(A\), isomorphic to \(\mathbb{R}^k\), \(k>1\). The operators are left-invariant and have the form \(L^a+\Delta_\alpha\) where \(\alpha\in \mathbb{R}^k\) and for each \(a\in \mathbb{R}^k\), \(L^a\) is a left-invariant second order differential operator on \(N\); \(\Delta_\alpha=\Delta - \langle\alpha,\nabla\rangle\), where \(\Delta\) is the Laplacian on \(\mathbb{R}^k\). The authors obtain an upper estimate for the transition probabilities of the evolution on \(N\) generated by \(L^{\sigma(t)}\) where \(\sigma:[0,\infty)\to \mathbb{R}^k\) is a continuous function, and an upper bound for the Poisson kernel for \( L^a+\Delta_\alpha\).