Nonuniqueness for the heat flow of harmonic maps
On a parabolic strongly nonlinear problem on manifolds.
On analytic torsion over C*-algebras
In this paper, we present an analytic definition for the relative torsion for flat C*-algebra bundles over a compact manifold. The advantage of such a relative torsion is that it is defined without any hypotheses on the flat C*-algebra bundle. In the case where the flat C*-algebra bundle is of determinant class, we relate it easily to the L^2 torsion as defined in [7],[5].
On existence of harmonic maps from a surface to the spcae of it
On global Sobolev inequalities.
On heat kernels on Lie groups.
On the connectedness of the space of initial data for the Einstein equations.
On the Curvature and Heat Flow on Hamiltonian Systems
We develop the differential geometric and geometric analytic studies of Hamiltonian systems. Key ingredients are the curvature operator, the weighted Laplacian, and the associated Riccati equation.We prove appropriate generalizations of the Bochner-Weitzenböck formula and Laplacian comparison theorem, and study the heat flow.
On the Neumann Problem for the Nonlinear Parabolic Equation of Eells-Sampson and Harmonie Mappings.
On the notion of -completeness of a stochastic flow on a manifold.
On the relation between elliptic and parabolic Harnack inequalities
We show that, if a certain Sobolev inequality holds, then a scale-invariant elliptic Harnack inequality suffices to imply its a priori stronger parabolic counterpart. Neither the relative Sobolev inequality nor the elliptic Harnack inequality alone suffices to imply the parabolic Harnack inequality in question; both are necessary conditions. As an application, we show the equivalence between parabolic Harnack inequality for on , (i.e., for ) and elliptic Harnack inequality for on .
On the Schrödinger heat kernel in horn-shaped domains
We prove pointwise lower bounds for the heat kernel of Schrödinger semigroups on Euclidean domains under Dirichlet boundary conditions. The bounds take into account non-Gaussian corrections for the kernel due to the geometry of the domain. The results are applied to prove a general lower bound for the Schrödinger heat kernel in horn-shaped domains without assuming intrinsic ultracontractivity for the free heat semigroup.
On the Yang-Mills heat equation in two and three dimensions.
Optimal heat kernel bounds under logarithmic Sobolev inequalities
Optimal heat kernel bounds under logarithmic Sobolev inequalities
We establish optimal uniform upper estimates on heat kernels whose generators satisfy a logarithmic Sobolev inequality (or entropy-energy inequality) with the optimal constant of the Euclidean space. Off-diagonals estimates may also be obtained with however a smaller d istance involving harmonic functions. In the last part, we apply these methods to study some heat kernel decays for diffusion operators of the type Laplacian minus the gradient of a smooth potential with a given growth at infinity....
Parbolic pseudo-differential initial-boundary value problems.
Perturbation du spectre (Conditions de Neumann)
Porous media equation on locally finite graphs
In this paper, we consider two typical problems on a locally finite connected graph. The first one is to study the Bochner formula for the Laplacian operator on a locally finite connected graph. The other one is to obtain global nontrivial nonnegative solution to porous-media equation via the use of Aronson-Benilan argument. We use the curvature dimension condition to give a characterization two point graph. We also give a porous-media equation criterion about stochastic completeness of the graph....
Preuve de la conjecture de Poincaré en déformant la métrique par la courbure de Ricci
Nous présentons la preuve de la conjecture de Poincaré, concernant les variétés compactes simplement connexes de dimension , proposée par G. Perel’man. Elle repose sur l’étude de l’évolution de métriques riemanniennes sous le flot de la courbure de Ricci et sur les travaux antérieurs de R. Hamilton. Après une introduction aux techniques analytiques et géométriques développées par R. Hamilton, nous tentons de décrire la méthode de chirurgie métrique utilisée par G. Perel’man pour franchir les temps...
Random walks on finite rank solvable groups
We establish the lower bound , for the large times asymptotic behaviours of the probabilities of return to the origin at even times , for random walks associated with finite symmetric generating sets of solvable groups of finite Prüfer rank. (A group has finite Prüfer rank if there is an integer , such that any of its finitely generated subgroup admits a generating set of cardinality less or equal to .)