Curvature dimension inequalities and subelliptic heat kernel gradient bounds on contact manifolds

DOI10.1007/s11118-013-9345-xzbMath1321.53034arXiv1211.3778MaRDI QIDQ2436554

Fabrice Baudoin, Jing Wang

Publication date: 25 February 2014

Published in: Potential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3778

zbMATH Keywords

contact manifold; Bochner formula; heat semigroup; gradient bounds; stochastic completeness; Bonnet-Myers theorem; curvature dimension inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53C17: Sub-Riemannian geometry

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