Harnack's Inequality for Elliptic Differential Equations on Minimal Surfaces.
We prove Harnack's inequality for non-negative solutions of some degenerate elliptic operators in divergence form with the lower order term coefficients satisfying a Kato type contition.
Let be a closed polarized complex manifold of Kähler type. Let be the maximal compact subgroup of the automorphism group of . On the space of Kähler metrics that are invariant under and represent the cohomology class , we define a flow equation whose critical points are the extremal metrics,i.e.those that minimize the square of the -norm of the scalar curvature. We prove that the dynamical system in this space of metrics defined by the said flow does not have periodic orbits, and that its...
Let G be a Lie group. The main new result of this paper is an estimate in L2 (G) for the Davies perturbation of the semigroup generated by a centered sublaplacian H on G. When G is amenable, such estimates hold only for sublaplacians which are centered. Our semigroup estimate enables us to give new proofs of Gaussian heat kernel estimates established by Varopoulos on amenable Lie groups and by Alexopoulos on Lie groups of polynomial growth.
Let G be a Lie group of polynomial volume growth. Consider a differential operator H of order 2m on G which is a sum of even powers of a generating list of right invariant vector fields. When G is solvable, we obtain an algebraic condition on the list which is sufficient to ensure that the semigroup kernel of H satisfies global Gaussian estimates for all times. For G not necessarily solvable, we state an analytic condition on the list which is necessary and sufficient for global Gaussian estimates....