Reflecting Diffusion Process on Time-Inhomogeneous Manifolds with Boundary

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Authors Li-Juan Cheng, Kun Zhang

Publication date 15 November 2012

Abstract: Let $L_t:=Delt{a}_t+Z_t$ for a $C^{1,1}$-vector field $Z$ on a differential manifold $M$ with boundary $partialM$, where $Delt{a}_t$ is the Laplacian induced by a time dependent metric $g_t$ differentiable in $tin[0,T_c)$. We first introduce the reflecting diffusion process generated by $L_t$ and establish the derivative formula for the associated diffusion semigroup; then construct the couplings for the reflecting $L_t$-diffusion processes by parallel and reflecting displacement, which implies the gradient estimates of the associated heat semigroup; and finally, present a number of equivalent inequalities for the curvature lower bound and the convexity of the boundary, including the gradient estimations, Harnack inequalities, transportation-cost inequalities and other functional inequalities for diffusion semigroup.

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