Eigenvalues of collapsing domains and drift Laplacians

DOI10.4310/MRL.2012.V19.N3.A10MaRDI QIDQ2391630zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Zhiqin Lu, Julie Rowlett

Publication date 5 August 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0191

zbMATH Keywords

Laplace operatordiffusion processesweight functionBakry-Émery manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds (58J65)

Abstract: By introducing a weight function to the Laplace operator, Bakry and 'Emery defined the "drift Laplacian" to study diffusion processes. Our first main result is that, given a Bakry-'Emery manifold, there is a naturally associated family of graphs whose eigenvalues converge to the eigenvalues of the drift Laplacian as the graphs collapse to the manifold. Applications of this result include a new relationship between Dirichlet eigenvalues of domains in $R^n$ and Neumann eigenvalues of domains in $R^{n+1}$ and a new maximum principle. Using our main result and maximum principle, we are able to generalize emph{all the results in Riemannian geometry based on gradient estimates to Bakry-'Emery manifolds}.

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