scholarly journals A generalized conservation property for the heat semigroup on weighted manifolds

2019 ◽  
Vol 377 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 1673-1710
Author(s):  
Jun Masamune ◽  
Marcel Schmidt
2021 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksey Kostenko

AbstractFor the discrete Laguerre operators we compute explicitly the corresponding heat kernels by expressing them with the help of Jacobi polynomials. This enables us to show that the heat semigroup is ultracontractive and to compute the corresponding norms. On the one hand, this helps us to answer basic questions (recurrence, stochastic completeness) regarding the associated Markovian semigroup. On the other hand, we prove the analogs of the Cwiekel–Lieb–Rosenblum and the Bargmann estimates for perturbations of the Laguerre operators, as well as the optimal Hardy inequality.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Anatoly A. Barybin

Transport equations of the macroscopic superfluid dynamics are revised on the basis of a combination of the conventional (stationary) Ginzburg-Landau equation and Schrödinger's equation for the macroscopic wave function (often called the order parameter) by using the well-known Madelung-Feynman approach to representation of the quantum-mechanical equations in hydrodynamic form. Such an approach has given (a) three different contributions to the resulting chemical potential for the superfluid component, (b) a general hydrodynamic equation of superfluid motion, (c) the continuity equation for superfluid flow with a relaxation term involving the phenomenological parameters and , (d) a new version of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation for the modulus of the order parameter which takes into account dissipation effects and reflects the charge conservation property for the superfluid component. The conventional Ginzburg-Landau equation also follows from our continuity equation as a particular case of stationarity. All the results obtained are mutually consistent within the scope of the chosen phenomenological description and, being model-neutral, applicable to both the low- and high- superconductors.


2021 ◽  
pp. 251484862110663
Author(s):  
Lerato Thakholi ◽  
Bram Büscher

In 2016, South Africa launched its National Biodiversity Economy Strategy. This strategy aims to facilitate the development of a ‘wildlife economy’ as a solution to unemployment, loss of biodiversity and rural development. Central to the strategy is the role of private conservation actors, who keenly posit their commercial model as the best way to achieve these objectives. This stands in sharp contrast to recent critiques that suggest that private conservation reinforces structural inequality by denying access to land and perpetuating unjust labour conditions. Using ethnographic data from the South African Lowveld region that includes the Kruger National Park, the paper takes these points further by arguing that a rapidly growing alliance between private conservation and property developers actively conserve inequality by maintaining and even extending spatial injustice in the region. Two popular recent manifestations of this alliance in particular, share block systems that distribute ownership of access to real estate in private reserves and wildlife housing estates, have established new conservation-property linkages that entrench capitalist socioecological fixes. Not only do these initiatives lead to further engrained spatial injustice, we conclude that this conservation-property alliance at the centre of the ‘wildlife economy’ also willingly sacrifices environmental sustainability on the altar of white conservation imaginations and private profit.


Diversity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 570
Author(s):  
Miriam A. Zemanova ◽  
Daniel Ramp

Dispersal is a key process for population persistence, particularly in fragmented landscapes. Connectivity between habitat fragments can be easily estimated by quantifying gene flow among subpopulations. However, the focus in ecological research has been on endangered species, typically excluding species that are not of current conservation concern. Consequently, our current understanding of the behaviour and persistence of many species is incomplete. A case in point is the eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus), an Australian herbivore that is subjected to considerable harvesting and population control efforts. In this study, we used non-invasive genetic sampling of eastern grey kangaroos within and outside of the Mourachan Conservation Property to assess functional connectivity. In total, we genotyped 232 samples collected from 17 locations at 20 microsatellite loci. The clustering algorithm indicated the presence of two clusters, with some overlap between the groups within and outside of the reserve. This genetic assessment should be repeated in 10–15 years to observe changes in population structure and gene flow over time, monitoring the potential impact of the planned exclusion fencing around the reserve.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Zhang Chao ◽  
José L. Torrea

Abstract In this paper we analyze the convergence of the following type of series $$\begin{eqnarray}T_{N}^{{\mathcal{L}}}f(x)=\mathop{\sum }_{j=N_{1}}^{N_{2}}v_{j}\big(e^{-a_{j+1}{\mathcal{L}}}f(x)-e^{-a_{j}{\mathcal{L}}}f(x)\big),\quad x\in \mathbb{R}^{n},\end{eqnarray}$$ where ${\{e^{-t{\mathcal{L}}}\}}_{t>0}$ is the heat semigroup of the operator ${\mathcal{L}}=-\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E5}+V$ with $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E5}$ being the classical laplacian, the nonnegative potential $V$ belonging to the reverse Hölder class $RH_{q}$ with $q>n/2$ and $n\geqslant 3$ , $N=(N_{1},N_{2})\in \mathbb{Z}^{2}$ with $N_{1}<N_{2}$ , ${\{v_{j}\}}_{j\in \mathbb{Z}}$ is a bounded real sequences, and ${\{a_{j}\}}_{j\in \mathbb{Z}}$ is an increasing real sequence. Our analysis will consist in the boundedness, in $L^{p}(\mathbb{R}^{n})$ and in $BMO(\mathbb{R}^{n})$ , of the operators $T_{N}^{{\mathcal{L}}}$ and its maximal operator $T^{\ast }f(x)=\sup _{N}T_{N}^{{\mathcal{L}}}f(x)$ . It is also shown that the local size of the maximal differential transform operators (with $V=0$ ) is the same with the order of a singular integral for functions $f$ having local support. Moreover, if ${\{v_{j}\}}_{j\in \mathbb{Z}}\in \ell ^{p}(\mathbb{Z})$ , we get an intermediate size between the local size of singular integrals and Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator.


2003 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 411-412
Author(s):  
Yusuke Imaeda ◽  
Shu-ichiro Inutsuka

Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is one of the widely used methods to calculate the various astrophysical fluid dynamics. However, standard SPH cannot accurately describe the long-term evolution of shear flows: The large density error emerges within a dynamical timescale, and the amplitude of the error becomes larger than the value of density itself (Δρ ≳ ρ), when we take the mean separation of the particles as the smoothing length. The origin of error is due to the inaccurate description of the continuity equation in the standard SPH formalism. To ensure the local mass conservation property, we have reformulated SPH, in which we distinguish the particle velocity and the fluid velocity for the updation of the particle positions. We find that the present modification provides an accurate description of the density evolution in SPH.


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