Riemannian metrics and Laplacians for generalized smooth distributions

DOI10.1142/S1793525320500168MaRDI QIDQ5156541zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Iakovos Androulidakis, Yuri A. Kordyukov

Publication date 11 October 2021

Published in Journal of Topology and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06815

zbMATH Keywords

Laplacianhypoellipticitydifferential operatorssingular foliationsubelliptic estimatesRiemannian structuresvector distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hypoelliptic equations (35H10) PDEs on manifolds (35R01) Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

Abstract: We show that any generalised smooth distribution on a smooth manifold, possibly of non-constant rank, admits a Riemannian metric. Using such a metric, we attach a Laplace operator to any smooth distribution as such. When the underlying manifold is compact, we show that it is essentially self-adjoint. Viewing this Laplacian in the longitudinal pseudodifferential calculus of the smallest singular foliation which includes the distribution, we prove hypoellipticity.

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