On-diagonal asymptotics for heat kernels of a class of inhomogeneous partial differential operators

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Abstract: We consider certain constant-coefficient differential operators on mathbbRd with positive-definite symbols. Each such operator Lambda with symbol P defines a semigroup etLambda , t>0 , admitting a convolution kernel HPt for which the large-time behavior of HPt(0) cannot be deduced by basic scaling arguments. The simplest example has symbol P(xi)=(eta+zeta2)2+eta4 , xi=(eta,zeta)inmathbbR2 . We devise a method to establish large-time asymptotics of HPt(0) for several classes of examples of this type and we show that these asymptotics are preserved by perturbations by certain higher-order differential operators. For the P just given, it turns out that HPt(0)simcPt5/8 as toinfty . We show how such results are relevant to understand the convolution powers of certain complex functions on mathbbZd . Our work represents a first basic step towards a good understanding of the semigroups associated with these operators. Obtaining meaningful off-diagonal upper bounds for HPt remains an interesting challenge.



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