Intrinsic sub-Laplacian for hypersurface in a contact sub-Riemannian manifold

DOI10.1007/S00030-023-00891-7MaRDI QIDQ6071900zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Davide Barilari, Karen Habermann

Publication date 29 November 2023

Published in NoDEA. Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09099

zbMATH Keywords

sub-Riemannian geometryhypersurfacescontact manifoldsub-Laplacianmodel spacesradial processPfaffian equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sub-Riemannian geometry (53C17) Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds (58J65) Local submanifolds (53B25)

Abstract: We construct and study the intrinsic sub-Laplacian, defined outside the set of characteristic points, for a smooth hypersurface embedded in a contact sub-Riemannian manifold. We prove that, away from characteristic points, the intrinsic sub-Laplacian arises as the limit of Laplace-Beltrami operators built by means of Riemannian approximations to the sub-Riemannian structure using the Reeb vector field. We carefully analyse three families of model cases for this setting obtained by considering canonical hypersurfaces embedded in model spaces for contact sub-Riemannian manifolds. In these model cases, we show that the intrinsic sub-Laplacian is stochastically complete and in particular, that the stochastic process induced by the intrinsic sub-Laplacian almost surely does not hit characteristic points.

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