Resistance forms, quasisymmetric maps and heat kernel estimates (Q2880222)

The theory of resistance forms was created and developed by the author [Analysis on fractals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2001; Zbl 0998.28004)] in order to study analysis on (low-dimensional) fractals. With a resistance form one associates a stochastic process, through a Dirichlet form. Such Dirichlet forms roughly correspond to Hunt processes for which every point has positive capacity.NEWLINENEWLINEIn the first two parts of the paper, the theory of resistance forms is further developed in order to describe the asymptotic behavior of the corresponding heat kernel. Under volume doubling property, a new metric, which is quasisymmetric with respect to the initial resistance metric, is constructed.NEWLINENEWLINEThe main result is proved in part 3: a Li-Yau type diagonal sub-Gaussian estimate of the heat kernel associated with the process, using this new metric NEWLINE\[NEWLINEp(t, x, y) \asymp \frac{c_1}{V_d (x, t^ {1 / \beta })} \exp \left (-c_2 \left (\frac{d(x, y)^ {\beta }}{t} \right ) ^ {\frac{1}{\beta - 1}}\right )NEWLINE\]NEWLINE Applications are presented in the final part: to asymptotic behavior of the traces of \( 1\)-dimensional \( \alpha\)-stable processes and to the random Sierpinski gaskets.