Operator Theory, Complex Analysis and Applications Seminar 

18/07/2013, 16:30 — 17:30 — Room P3.10, Mathematics Building
David Krejcirik, Nuclear Physics Institute ASCR, Czech Republic

The Brownian traveller on manifolds

We study the influence of the intrinsic curvature on the large time behaviour of the heat equation in a tubular neighbourhood of an unbounded geodesic in a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold. Since we consider killing boundary conditions, there is always an exponential-type decay for the heat semigroup. We show that this exponential-type decay is slower for positively curved manifolds comparing to the flat case. As the main result, we establish a sharp extra polynomial-type decay for the heat semigroup on negatively curved manifolds comparing to the flat case. The proof employs the existence of Hardy-type inequalities for the Dirichlet Laplacian in the tubular neighbourhoods on negatively curved manifolds and the method of self-similar variables and weighted Sobolev spaces for the heat equation.

1. Martin Kolb and David Krejcirik: The Brownian traveller on manifolds, J. Spectr. Theory, to appear; preprint on arXiv:1108.3191 [math.AP].