Curvature-dimension estimates for the Laplace-Beltrami operator of a totally geodesic foliation

DOI10.1016/J.NA.2015.06.025MaRDI QIDQ494197zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Fabrice Baudoin, Michel Bonnefont

Publication date 31 August 2015

Published in Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods \& Applications. Series A: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3777

zbMATH Keywords

curvature dimension inequalitiesfoliationheat diffusionLaplace-Beltrami operatorRiemannian manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foliations (differential geometric aspects) (53C12) Elliptic equations on manifolds, general theory (58J05) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35)

Abstract: We study Bakry-Emery type estimates for the Laplace-Beltrami operator of a totally geodesic foliation. In particular, we are interested in situations for which the $Gamm{a}_2$ operator may not be bounded from below but the horizontal Bakry-Emery curvature is. As we prove it, under a bracket generating condition, this weaker condition is enough to imply several functional inequalities for the heat semigroup including the Wang-Harnack inequality and the log-Sobolev inequality. We also prove that, under proper additional assumptions, the generalized curvature dimension inequality introduced by Baudoin-Garofalo is uniformly satisfied for a family of Riemannian metrics that converge to the sub-Riemannian one.

Review text

The authors consider a Riemannian manifold \((M, g)\) equipped with a foliation \(\mathcal{F}\) which satisfies rather strong conditions: at the same time, it is Riemannian and the leaves are totally geodesic. Decomposing the tangent bundle \(TM\) into the orthogonal sum \(\mathcal{H}\oplus\mathcal{V}\), \(\mathcal{V}\) being the bundle tangent to \(\mathcal{F}\), they deform \(g\) conformally in the \(\mathcal{V}\)-direction by a positive constant factor \(1/ \epsilon\) and get a new Riemannian tensor \(g_\epsilon\) which provides the corresponding Laplace-Beltrami operator \(\Delta_\epsilon\) and its heat diffusion operators \(P^\epsilon_t\), \(t\geq 0\). They obtain a number of estimates (gradient bounds, log-Sobolev inequalities, Poincaré inequalities, entropy bounds) for these (\(\Delta_\epsilon\) and \(P^\epsilon_t\)) operators.

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