A Hamiltonian approach to the heat kernel of a subLaplacian on S^2n+1

DOI10.1142/S0219530513500358MaRDI QIDQ2867064zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter C. Greiner

Publication date 10 December 2013

Published in Analysis and Applications (Singapore) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0457

zbMATH Keywords

Carnot-Carathéodory distanceCR manifoldsgeodesicsHamiltonian mechanicsheat kernelsshort time asymptoticssub-Laplacianssub-Riemannian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis on CR manifolds (32V20) Boundary value problems for functional-differential equations (34K10) Integral representations of solutions to PDEs (35C15) Subelliptic equations (35H20) Heat kernel (35K08) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20)

Abstract: The heat kernel for the Cauchy-Riemann subLaplacian on S(2n+1) is derived in a manner which is completely analogous to the classical derivation of elliptic heat kernels. This suggests that the classical hamiltonian construction of elliptic heat kernels, with appropriate modifications, does yield heat kernels for subelliptic operators.

Review text

This paper is concerned with the study of the heat kernel for the Cauchy-Riemann sub-Laplacian \(\Delta_C\) on the sphere \(S^{2n+1} \subset \mathbb C^{n+1}\). The author proceeds along Hamiltonian lines, finding bicharacteristic curves and solving the Hamilton-Jacobi equation to eventually obtain a formula for the heat kernel \(P_C\) for \(\Delta_C\) (Section 4). He is then able to compute short time asymptotics for \(P_C\) via the method of stationary phase (Section 6). Along the way, he also obtains an expression for the Carnot-Carathéodory distance with respect to the corresponding sub-Riemannian structure on \(S^{n+1}\) (Section 5). These computations are preceded by a warm-up Section 3, where the same methods are used to derive the corresponding (known) results for the classical Laplacian \(\Delta_S\) on \(S^{n+1}\) and its Riemannian distance. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe reader may also be interested in a previous paper by the same author together with \textit{R. W. Beals} and \textit{B. Gaveau} [J. Math. Pures Appl., IX. Sér. 79, No. 7, 633--689 (2000; Zbl 0959.35035)], which uses similar methods to obtain similar results for the sub-Laplacian on Heisenberg groups.

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