The Brownian traveller on manifolds
Martin Kolb
Universität Paderborn, GermanyDavid Krejčiřík
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
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Abstract
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.
Cite this article
Martin Kolb, David Krejčiřík, The Brownian traveller on manifolds. J. Spectr. Theory 4 (2014), no. 2, pp. 235–281
DOI 10.4171/JST/69