Uniform Gaussian bounds for subelliptic heat kernels and an application to the total variation flow of graphs over Carnot groups

zbMATH Open1275.53055arXiv1212.6665MaRDI QIDQ2851035FDOQ2851035

Authors: Luca Capogna, Maria Manfredini, Giovanna Citti 

Publication date: 2 October 2013

Published in: Analysis and Geometry in Metric Spaces (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we study heat kernels associated to a Carnot group $G$, endowed with a family of collapsing left-invariant Riemannian metrics $sigm{a}_e$ which converge in the Gromov-Hausdorff sense to a sub-Riemannian structure on $G$ as $eo0$. The main new contribution are Gaussian-type bounds on the heat kernel for the $sigm{a}_e$ metrics which are stable as $eo0$ and extend the previous time-independent estimates in cite{CiMa-F}. As an application we study well posedness of the total variation flow of graph surfaces over a bounded domain in $(G,s_e)$. We establish interior and boundary gradient estimates, and develop a Schauder theory which are stable as $eo0$. As a consequence we obtain long time existence of smooth solutions of the sub-Riemannian flow ($e=0$), which in turn yield sub-Riemannian minimal surfaces as $toinfty$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6665

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zbMATH Keywords

Carnot groupssub-Riemannian geometrymean curvature flowsub-Riemannian minimal surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) PDEs on Heisenberg groups, Lie groups, Carnot groups, etc. (35R03)

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