Large time behavior of Schrödinger heat kernels and applications (Q5938841)

The author addresses to the following question: Does there exist a global estimate on the heat normal of \(-\Delta+V\), which reveals an explicit dependence on the potential \(V\)? Here the author obtains qualitatively sharp global heat kernel bounds for all potentials \(V(x)\) of the form \(V(x)\sim C/(d(x))^b\) with \(b\in[0,2]\). When \(V\geq 0\), the heat kernel \(G=G(x,y,t,0)\) of \(-\Delta+V\) is the multiple of a standard Gaussian with a weight function. If \(b>2\), then the weight is bounded between two positive constants; if \(b=2\), the weigth is bounded between two positive functions of \(t\), \(d(x)\) and \(d(y)\), which have polynomial decay. In the case of \(b<2\) the weight is bounded between two positive functions of \(t\), \(d(x)\) and \(d(y)\) which have exponential decay. The relationship of obtaining results with geometric analysis and semilinear problems are presented.