We establish the lower bound $p_{2t}(e,e)\succsim exp\left(-t^{1/3}\right)$, for the large times asymptotic behaviours of the probabilities $p_{2t}(e,e)$ of return to the origin at even times $2t$, 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 $r$, such that any of its finitely generated subgroup admits a generating set of cardinality less or equal to $r$.)

We show that the $L^p$ boundedness, p > 2, of the Riesz transform on a complete non-compact Riemannian manifold with upper and lower Gaussian heat kernel estimates is equivalent to a certain form of Sobolev inequality. We also characterize in such terms the heat kernel gradient upper estimate on manifolds with polynomial growth.

Let $(M,d)$ be a metric space, equipped with a Borel measure $\mu$ satisfying suitable compatibility conditions. An amalgam $A_p^q\left(M\right)$ is a space which looks locally like $L^p\left(M\right)$ but globally like $L^q\left(M\right)$. We consider the case where the measure $\mu \left(B\right(x,\rho )$ of the ball $B(x,\rho )$ with centre $x$ and radius $\rho$ behaves like a polynomial in $\rho$, and consider the mapping properties between amalgams of kernel operators where the kernel $kerK(x,y)$ behaves like $d(x,y{)}^{-a}$ when $d(x,y)\le 1$ and like $d(x,y{)}^{-b}$ when $d(x,y)\ge 1$. As an application, we describe Hardy–Littlewood–Sobolev type regularity theorems...

We study the validity of the $L^p$ inequality for the Riesz transform when $p\>2$ and of its reverse inequality when $1\<p\<2$ on complete riemannian manifolds under the doubling property and some Poincaré inequalities.

Assume that $M_0$ is a complete Riemannian manifold with Ricci curvature bounded from below and that $M_0$ satisfies a Sobolev inequality of dimension $\nu \>3$. Let $M$ be a complete Riemannian manifold isometric at infinity to $M_0$ and let $p\in (\nu /(\nu -1),\nu )$. The boundedness of the Riesz transform of $L^p\left(M_0\right)$ then implies the boundedness of the Riesz transform of $L^p\left(M\right)$