I consider a two-parameter family ${{B}_{s,t}}$ of unitary transforms mapping an ${{L}^{2}}$-space over a Lie group of compact type onto a holomorphic ${{L}^{2}}$-space over the complexified group. These were studied using infinite-dimensional analysis in joint work with $\text{B}$. Driver, but are treated here by finite-dimensional means. These transforms interpolate between two previously known transforms, and all should be thought of as generalizations of the classical Segal-Bargmann transform. I consider also the limiting cases $s\,\to \,\infty \,\text{and}\,s\,\to \,t/2$.

In [1], Jean-Philippe Anker conjectures an upper bound for the heat kernel of a symmetric space of noncompact type. We show in this paper that his prediction is verified for the space of positive definite n × n real matrices.

Jean-Philippe Anker made an interesting conjecture in [2] about the growth of the heat kernel on symmetric spaces of noncompact type. For any symmetric space of noncompact type, we can write

where ϕ0 is the Legendre function and q, "the dimension at infinity", is chosen such that limt—>∞Vt(x) = 1 for all x. Anker's conjecture can be stated as follows: there exists a constant C > 0 such that

where is the set of positive indivisible roots. The behaviour of the function ϕ0 is well known (see [1]).

The main goal of this paper is to establish the conjecture for the spaces SU*(2n)/ Sp(n).

In this note, we will consider the heat propagation on locally finite graph networks which satisfy a skew condition on vertices (See Definition of Section 2). For several periodic models, we will construct the heat kernels Pt with the skew condition explicitly, and derive the decay order of Pt as time goes to infinity.

A compact Riemannian manifold (M, g) of dimension 3 or higher admits a metric of constant (positive or negative) sectional curvature if the following conditions hold: the diameter is bounded from above, the part of the Ricci curvature which lies below some fixed negative number is bounded in LP norm for p > n/2, and the metric is almost spherical or almost hyperbolic in the LP sense. The idea of the proof is to obtain stronger (i.e. L∞) pinching by deforming the initial metric using the Ricci flow, thus reducing the problem to the theorems of Gromov in the case rg < 0 and of Grove, Karcher and Ruh in the case rg > 0. The reduced curvature tensor changes along the flow according to the heat equation, which implies a weak nonlinear parabolic inequality for its norm. The iteration method of De Giorgi, Nash and Moser is applied to obtain the estimate for the maximum norm of the reduced curvature tensor. The crucial step in the iteration consists of controlling the Sobolev constant of the appropriate imbedding (which also changes along the flow, but behaves well) by the isoperimetric constant, which, in turn, can be bounded in terms independent of the particular manifold.