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

DOI10.1007/S00030-023-00891-7zbMATH Open1528.53032arXiv2209.09099OpenAlexW4388197230MaRDI QIDQ6071900FDOQ6071900

Authors: Davide Barilari, Karen Habermann 

Publication date: 29 November 2023

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

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.

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)

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