Wellposedness of nonlinear flows on manifolds of bounded geometry

DOI10.1007/S10455-023-09940-XarXiv2210.15886OpenAlexW4396677236MaRDI QIDQ6415375FDOQ6415375

Rafe Mazzeo, Eric Bahuaud, Christine Guenther, James Isenberg

Publication date: 28 October 2022

Abstract: We present simple conditions which ensure that a strongly elliptic operator $L$ generates an analytic semigroup on H"older spaces on an arbitrary complete manifold of bounded geometry. This is done by establishing the equivalent property that $L$ is "sectorial", a condition that specifies the decay of the resolvent $(lambdaI-L{)}^{-1}$ as $lambda$ diverges from the H"older spectrum of $L$. As one step, we prove existence of this resolvent if $lambda$ is sufficiently large, and on this general class of manifolds, use a geometric microlocal version of the semiclassical pseudodifferential calculus. The properties of $L$ and $e^{-tL}$ we obtain can then be used to prove wellposedness of a wide class of nonlinear flows. We illustrate this by proving wellposedness on H"older spaces of the flow associated to the ambient obstruction tensor on complete manifolds of bounded geometry.

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10455-023-09940-x

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Heat and other parabolic equation methods for PDEs on manifolds (58J35) Parabolic equations and parabolic systems (35Kxx) Spectral theory and eigenvalue problems for partial differential equations (35Pxx) Operator theory (47-XX)

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