Heat Kernel Measures and Critical Limits

2010 ◽  
pp. 393-415
Author(s):  
Doug Pickrell
Keyword(s):  
Heat Kernel ◽  
Critical Limits

The Resolvent Operator

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles L. Epstein ◽  
Rafe Mazzeo
Keyword(s):  
Cauchy Problem ◽  
Heat Equation ◽  
Laplace Transform ◽  
Heat Kernel ◽  
Resolvent Operator ◽  
Contour Integration ◽  
Resolvent Kernel ◽  
The Laplace Transform ◽  
Elliptic Estimates ◽  
The Resolvent Operator

This chapter describes the construction of a resolvent operator using the Laplace transform of a parametrix for the heat kernel and a perturbative argument. In the equation (μ‎-L) R(μ‎) f = f, R(μ‎) is a right inverse for (μ‎-L). In Hölder spaces, these are the natural elliptic estimates for generalized Kimura diffusions. The chapter first constructs the resolvent kernel using an induction over the maximal codimension of bP, and proves various estimates on it, along with corresponding estimates for the solution operator for the homogeneous Cauchy problem. It then considers holomorphic semi-groups and uses contour integration to construct the solution to the heat equation, concluding with a discussion of Kimura diffusions where all coefficients have the same leading homogeneity.

Hypoelliptic Laplacian and Orbital Integrals (AM-177)

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Michel Bismut
Keyword(s):  
Fixed Point ◽  
Symmetric Space ◽  
Heat Kernel ◽  
Geodesic Flow ◽  
Casimir Operator ◽  
Index Theory ◽  
Weighted Sum ◽  
Orbital Integrals ◽  
Hypoelliptic Heat Kernel ◽  
Wave Kernel

This book uses the hypoelliptic Laplacian to evaluate semisimple orbital integrals in a formalism that unifies index theory and the trace formula. The hypoelliptic Laplacian is a family of operators that is supposed to interpolate between the ordinary Laplacian and the geodesic flow. It is essentially the weighted sum of a harmonic oscillator along the fiber of the tangent bundle, and of the generator of the geodesic flow. In this book, semisimple orbital integrals associated with the heat kernel of the Casimir operator are shown to be invariant under a suitable hypoelliptic deformation, which is constructed using the Dirac operator of Kostant. Their explicit evaluation is obtained by localization on geodesics in the symmetric space, in a formula closely related to the Atiyah-Bott fixed point formulas. Orbital integrals associated with the wave kernel are also computed. Estimates on the hypoelliptic heat kernel play a key role in the proofs, and are obtained by combining analytic, geometric, and probabilistic techniques. Analytic techniques emphasize the wavelike aspects of the hypoelliptic heat kernel, while geometrical considerations are needed to obtain proper control of the hypoelliptic heat kernel, especially in the localization process near the geodesics. Probabilistic techniques are especially relevant, because underlying the hypoelliptic deformation is a deformation of dynamical systems on the symmetric space, which interpolates between Brownian motion and the geodesic flow. The Malliavin calculus is used at critical stages of the proof.

scholarly journals A Cortical-Inspired Sub-Riemannian Model for Poggendorff-Type Visual Illusions

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Emre Baspinar ◽  
Luca Calatroni ◽  
Valentina Franceschi ◽  
Dario Prandi
Keyword(s):  
Heat Kernel ◽  
Mathematical Description ◽  
Gradient Descent ◽  
Numerical Results ◽  
Visual Illusions ◽  
Efficient Computation ◽  
Functional Architecture ◽  
Descent Algorithms ◽  
Interaction Term

We consider Wilson-Cowan-type models for the mathematical description of orientation-dependent Poggendorff-like illusions. Our modelling improves two previously proposed cortical-inspired approaches, embedding the sub-Riemannian heat kernel into the neuronal interaction term, in agreement with the intrinsically anisotropic functional architecture of V1 based on both local and lateral connections. For the numerical realisation of both models, we consider standard gradient descent algorithms combined with Fourier-based approaches for the efficient computation of the sub-Laplacian evolution. Our numerical results show that the use of the sub-Riemannian kernel allows us to reproduce numerically visual misperceptions and inpainting-type biases in a stronger way in comparison with the previous approaches.

Strains in the Fiduciary Metaphor: Divided Physician Loyalties and Obligations in a Changing Health Care System

1995 ◽  
Vol 21 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 241-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc A. Rodwin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Legal Problem ◽  
Health Policy Reform ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Legal Concepts ◽  
Legal Fictions ◽  
Critical Limits ◽  
Over Time

Owen Barfield, the British solicitor and literary scholar, reminds us that many legal concepts have their origin as metaphors and legal fictions. We often fail to see the nature of legal metaphors, Barfield argues, because over time they ossify and we read them literally rather than figuratively. Look closely at changes in law over time, Barfield advises us, to see how effectively metaphor works in law and language. Many legal categories and procedures we now use had their origin in using a metaphor that revealed a new way of looking at a problem or that helped solve a legal problem. Legal metaphors also help us to identify critical limits and strains in adapting to new facts and circumstances.George Annas has pointed out that our choice of metaphors for medicine can reframe our debates about health policy reform. And Analee and Thomas Beisecker remind us that patient-physician relations have been viewed through many metaphors. These include parent-child relations (paternalism); seller-purchaser transactions (consumerism); teacher-student learning (education); relations among partners or friends (partnership or friendship); or rational parties entering into negotiations or contracts (negotiation or rational contract).

scholarly journals Logarithmic correction to the entropy of extremal black holes in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 Einstein-Maxwell supergravity

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gourav Banerjee ◽  
Sudip Karan ◽  
Binata Panda
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Heat Kernel ◽  
Proper Time ◽  
Logarithmic Correction ◽  
Functional Determinant ◽  
Supergravity Theory ◽  
Heat Kernel Expansion ◽  
Determinant Of Laplacian ◽  
Extremal Black Holes ◽  
Classical Background

Abstract We study one-loop covariant effective action of “non-minimally coupled” $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 1, d = 4 Einstein-Maxwell supergravity theory by heat kernel tool. By fluctuating the fields around the classical background, we study the functional determinant of Laplacian differential operator following Seeley-DeWitt technique of heat kernel expansion in proper time. We then compute the Seeley-DeWitt coefficients obtained through the expansion. A particular Seeley-DeWitt coefficient is used for determining the logarithmic correction to Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of extremal black holes using quantum entropy function formalism. We thus determine the logarithmic correction to the entropy of Kerr-Newman, Kerr and Reissner-Nordström black holes in “non-minimally coupled” $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 1, d = 4 Einstein-Maxwell supergravity theory.

scholarly journals Erratum to “Global heat kernel bounds via desingularizing weights”

2005 ◽  
Vol 220 (1) ◽  
pp. 238-239
Author(s):  
Pierre D. Milman ◽  
Yu.A. Semenov
Keyword(s):  
Heat Kernel ◽  
Kernel Bounds

Two-sided heat kernel estimates for censored stable-like processes

2009 ◽  
Vol 146 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 361-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen-Qing Chen ◽  
Panki Kim ◽  
Renming Song
Keyword(s):  
Heat Kernel ◽  
Kernel Estimates ◽  
Heat Kernel Estimates
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