High order regularity for subelliptic operators on Lie groups of polynomial growth

  • Nick Dungey

    Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Abstract

Let GG be a Lie group of polynomial volume growth, with Lie algebra \mbox\gothicg\mbox{\gothic g}. Consider a second-order, right-invariant, subelliptic differential operator HH on GG, and the associated semigroup St=etHS_t = e^{-tH}. We identify an ideal \mbox\gothicn\mbox{\gothic n}' of \mbox\gothicg\mbox{\gothic g} such that HH satisfies global regularity estimates for spatial derivatives of all orders, when the derivatives are taken in the direction of \mbox\gothicn\mbox{\gothic n}'. The regularity is expressed as L2L_2 estimates for derivatives of the semigroup, and as Gaussian bounds for derivatives of the heat kernel. We obtain the boundedness in LpL_p, 1<p<1<p<\infty, of some associated Riesz transform operators. Finally, we show that \mbox\gothicn\mbox{\gothic n}' is the largest ideal of \mbox\gothicg\mbox{\gothic g} for which the regularity results hold. Various algebraic characterizations of \mbox\gothicn\mbox{\gothic n}' are given. In particular, \mbox\gothicn=\mbox\gothics\mbox\gothicn\mbox{\gothic n}'= \mbox{\gothic s}\oplus \mbox{\gothic n} where \mbox\gothicn\mbox{\gothic n} is the nilradical of \mbox\gothicg\mbox{\gothic g} and \mbox\gothics\mbox{\gothic s} is the largest semisimple ideal of \mbox\gothicg\mbox{\gothic g}. Additional features of this article include an exposition of the structure theory for GG in Section 2, and a concept of twisted multiplications on Lie groups which includes semidirect products in the Appendix.

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Nick Dungey, High order regularity for subelliptic operators on Lie groups of polynomial growth. Rev. Mat. Iberoam. 21 (2005), no. 3, pp. 929–996

DOI 10.4171/RMI/441