Gradient estimate for eigenforms of Hodge Laplacian

DOI10.4310/MRL.2012.V19.N3.A6MaRDI QIDQ2391625zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jiaping Wang, Linfeng Zhou

Publication date 5 August 2013

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.4968

zbMATH Keywords

gradient estimateHodge LaplacianSobolev inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50)

Abstract: In this paper, we derive a gradient estimate for the linear combinations of eigenforms of the Hodge Laplacian on a closed manifold. The estimate is given in terms of the dimension, volume, diameter and curvature bound of the manifold. As an application, we obtain directly a sharp estimate for the heat kernel of the Hodge Laplacian.

Review text

Let \(\Delta\) be the Hodge Laplacian acting on smooth forms on a compact Riemannian manifold whose sectional curvature is bounded by \(K.\) The eigenvalues of \(\Delta\) are \(0\leq\lambda_1\leq \lambda_2\leq \ldots \) with a corresponding orthonormal basis of eigenforms \(\phi_1,\phi_2,\ldots.\) Then the main result of the paper is the following: There is a constant \(c=c(n,V,d,K)\) depending on the dimension \(n,\) volume \(V\), diameter \(d\) and the curvature bound \(K\) such that the following holds: For \(b_i\in\mathbb{R}\) with \(\sum_{i=1}^k b_i^2\leq 1\) the form \(\omega=\sum_{i=1}^kb_i\phi_i\) satisfies \[ \left|\nabla \omega\right|^2+\left(\lambda_k+1\right)\left|\omega\right|^2\leq c\left(\lambda_k+1\right)^{n/2+1}. \] The exponent \(n/2+1\) is sharp. As a consequence, one obtains an estimate for the Hessian of eigenfunctions.

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