Intrinsic ultracontractivity on Riemannian manifolds with infinite volume measures (Q977269)

Let \(M\) be a Cartan-Hadamard manifold (that is complete and simply-connected, and has everywhere non-positive sectional curvature) with \(d\geq 2\) and let \(L=\Delta\). It is known that \(L\) generates a unique (Dirichlet) diffusion semigroup \(P_t\) on \(M\). In this article, the author studies the intrinsic ultracontractivity for the semigroup \(P_t\) defined by \[ \|P_t^{\varphi_0}\|_{L^1(\mu_{\varphi_0})\to L^\infty(\mu_{\varphi_0})} <\infty,\;\;\;t>0, \] where \(\varphi_0>0\) is the unique unit eigenfunction and establishes some explicit conditions for this property to hold.