Small-time asymptotics for subelliptic Hermite functions on SU(2) and the CR sphere

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Abstract: We show that, under a natural scaling, the small-time behavior of the logarithmic derivatives of the subelliptic heat kernel on SU(2) converges to their analogues on the Heisenberg group at time 1. Realizing SU(2) as mathbbS3, we then generalize these results to higher-order odd-dimensional spheres equipped with their natural subRiemannian structure, where the limiting spaces are now the higher-dimensional Heisenberg groups.


\textit{J. J. Mitchell} [J. Funct. Anal. 164, No. 2, 209--248 (1999; Zbl 0928.22010)] studied the small-time behavior of Hermite functions on compact Lie groups. In particular, he demonstrated that, when written in exponential coordinates with a natural rescaling, these functions converge to the classical Euclidean Hermite polynomials. In a subsequent work [\textit{J. J. Mitchell}, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 263, No. 1, 165--181 (2001; Zbl 0997.43007)], he proved that Hermite functions on compact Riemannian manifolds, again written in exponential coordinates with appropriate rescaling, admit asymptotic expansions with a classical Hermite polynomial as the leading coefficient. In the paper under review, the authors investigate heat kernels related to the natural subRiemannian structure on \(\mathrm{SU}(2)\simeq \S^3\) and, more generally, on higher-order odd-dimensional spheres. More specifically, they prove that under a natural scaling, the small-time behavior of the logarithmic derivatives of the subelliptic heat kernel on \(\mathrm{SU}(2)\) converges to their analogues on the Heisenberg group at time 1. Next, they generalize these results to the CR sphere \(\S^{2d+1} \) equipped with their natural subRiemannian structure, where the limiting spaces are now the higher-dimensional Heisenberg groups. In other words, they obtain similar results as in [Mitchell, loc. cit.] for the Hermite functions on the CR spheres.



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