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Heat Kernels on homogeneous spaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

C. M. P. A. Smulders
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Comp. Sci., Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands e-mail: [email protected]
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Let a1… ad be a basis of the Lie algebra g of a connected Lie group G and let M be a Lie subgroup of,G. If dx is a non-zero positive quasi-invariant regular Borel measure on the homogeneous space X = G/M and S: X × G → C is a continuous cocycle, then under a rather weak condition on dx and S there exists in a natural way a (weakly*) continuous representation U of G in Lp (X;dx) for all p ε [1,].

Let Ai be the infinitesimal generator with respect to U and the direction ai, for all i ∈ { 1… d}. We consider n–th order strongly elliptic operators H = ΣcαAα with complex coefficients cα. We show that the semigroup S generated by the closure of H has a reduced heat kernel K and we derive upper bounds for k and all its derivatives.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2005

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