Upper estimates of heat kernels for non-local Dirichlet forms on doubling spaces

In this paper, we present a new approach to obtaining the off-diagonal upper estimate of the heat kernel for any regular Dirichlet form without a killing part on the doubling space. One of the novelties is that we have obtained the weighted L 2 {L^{2}} -norm estimate of the survival function 1 - P t B ⁢ 1 B {1-P_{t}^{B}1_{B}} for any metric ball B, which yields a nice tail estimate of the heat semigroup associated with the Dirichlet form. The parabolic L 2 {L^{2}} mean-value inequality is borrowed to use.

Pointwise monotonicity of heat kernels

In this paper we present an elementary proof of a pointwise radial monotonicity property of heat kernels that is shared by the Euclidean spaces, spheres and hyperbolic spaces. The main result was discovered by Cheeger and Yau in 1981 and rediscovered in special cases during the last few years. It deals with the monotonicity of the heat kernel from special points on revolution hypersurfaces. Our proof hinges on a non straightforward but elementary application of the parabolic maximum principle. As a consequence of the monotonicity property, we derive new inequalities involving classical special functions.

Estimates of heat kernels of non-symmetric Lévy processes

We investigate densities of vaguely continuous convolution semigroups of probability measures on ℝ d {{\mathbb{R}^{d}}} . First, we provide results that give upper estimates in a situation when the corresponding jump measure is allowed to be highly non-symmetric. Further, we prove upper estimates of the density and its derivatives if the jump measure compares with an isotropic unimodal measure and the characteristic exponent satisfies a certain scaling condition. Lower estimates are discussed in view of a recent development in that direction, and in such a way to complement upper estimates. We apply all those results to establish precise estimates of densities of non-symmetric Lévy processes.

Heat kernels of the discrete Laguerre operators

For 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.