Heat flow on 1-forms under lower Ricci bounds. Functional inequalities, spectral theory, and heat kernel

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Abstract: We study the canonical heat flow (mathsfHt)tgeq0 on the cotangent module L2(TM) over an mathrmRCD(K,infty) space (M,mathsfd,mathfrakm), . We show Hess-Schrader-Uhlenbrock's inequality and, if (M,mathsfd,mathfrakm) is also an mathrmRCD(K,N) space, Nin(1,infty), Bakry-Ledoux's inequality for (mathsfHt)tgeq0 w.r.t. the heat flow (mathsfPt)tgeq0 on L2(M). Variable versions of these estimates are discussed as well. In conjunction with a study of logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for 1-forms, the previous inequalities yield various Lp-properties of (mathsfHt)tgeq0, pin[1,infty]. Then we establish explicit inclusions between the spectrum of its generator, the Hodge Laplacian smashvecDelta, of the negative functional Laplacian Delta, and of the Schr"odinger operator Delta+K. In the mathrmRCD(K,N) case, we prove compactness of smashvecDelta1 if M is compact, and the independence of the Lp-spectrum of smashvecDelta on pin[1,infty] under a volume growth condition. We terminate by giving an appropriate interpretation of a heat kernel for (mathsfHt)tgeq0. We show its existence in full generality without any local compactness or doubling, and derive fundamental estimates and properties of it.



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